RUSSIAN NUCLEAR SUBMARINERS REFUSE TO SAIL UNTIL PAID.

Sailorsaboard the Russian nuclear submarine "Vepr’" refusedto put to sea until they were paid, Russian television reportedAugust 19. The station noted that such a "collective refusal"represented a serious challenge to good order in the militaryand that the commanders did not punish the men involved but rather"sought to find money" for them. But the televisionreporters professed to see one bright side of this revolt: "soldiersever more behave as individual personalities rather than as cogsin the military mechanism."

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