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US nuclear sub met by protests
May 10, 2021
The US Navy’s nuclear-power submarine
USS New Mexico tied up at a civilian harbour just outside Tromsø in Northern Norway on Monday, to a warm welcome from Norwegian defense forces and protests by angry local residents. The latter fear such sub berthings will make their home a target in the event of war, and that there’s little preparedness for a nuclear accident.
The US nuclear powered submarine
USS New Mexico docked here at Tønsvik northeast of Tromsø early Monday afternoon. PHOTO: Forsvaret/Helene Sofie Thorkildsen
“I’m here to show our opposition to what’s happening here now,” one demonstrator, Brage Skrede Kyllo, told Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK). “I’m worried about those who live around here.”
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PRIME MINISTER ERNA SOLBERG defends her government’s decision to go along with health authorities’ advice and send more Corona vaccine to regions where infection is highest. It means other regions will get less, but Solberg insists that will benefit the entire country.
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mp sf list 0 title: Fact or Fiction: A U-boat dropped German saboteurs on a Long Island beach where Martha vacationed.
mp sf list 0 description: FACT: “Yes, it’s known as Operation Pastorius,” says series co-writer and historian, Linda May Kallestein. “The U-boat surfaced not far from where Martha was staying in Long Island that summer.”
In June 1942, two squads of saboteurs all U.S. residents who returned to Germany to serve the Reich were dropped by U-boat on beaches in New York and Florida, respectively. They brought explosives and cash and had plans that included disrupting New York’s water supply. While J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI claimed credit for their quick arrests, the saboteurs’ plot was actually foiled from within: The group’s leader, 39-year-old George Dasch (2
FDR fishing accompanied by Princess Martha. Courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library archive.
LIKELY: “There were many rumors about their relationship many at the time thought [it was] romantic,” says series creator, director, co-writer and executive producer, Alexander Eik. “We do not know for certain that was the case, but we know that President Roosevelt was infatuated with Martha and this has been confirmed by many sources [including] two of his grandchildren. … Early in the war, British Intelligence [also] reported from Washington to London that the President was infatuated.”
It’s true that in his spare time between 1941-1945, FDR’s most frequent companion was Martha, though others were often with them as well. “We have assumed President Roosevelt had romantic feelings for the Crown Princess,” sums up series’ co-writer and historian, Linda May Kallestein. “That does not mean they had a physical relationship.”