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To: RR who wrote (28819)	8/14/2000 3:39:44 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Respond to of 35685

Moonstruck........good film... On a sadder note.......(partial story...) (Reuters) M O S C O W, Aug. 14 — Russia’s navy chief is not optimistic about a rescue for the more than 100 crewmen trapped board a crippled Russian nuclear submarine lying on the ocean floor above the Arctic Circle. Russian navy commander Admiral Vladimir Kuroyedov said the likelihood of reaching the stricken Kursk, an Oscar II-class submarine, and its crew was “not high,” according to the ITAR-Tass news agency. “Despite all the efforts being taken, the probability of a successful outcome from the situation with the Kursk is not very high,” Kuroyedov was quoted as saying by the ITAR-Tass news agency. Navy officials confirmed Kuroyedov made the remark, but it was not known if he meant the crew or the submarine, which was commissioned just five years ago. The submarine plunged to the floor of the Barents Sea on Sunday while taking part in a major naval exercise off Russia’s northern coast. The navy had been saying rescue efforts were going well until the admiral’s sudden announcement. Kuroyedov said it appeared that the submarine suffered major damage after colliding with another object, but he gave no further details. “There are signs of a big and serious collision,” he said. Russian and Western submarines sometimes play cat-and-mouse games in the area. Itar-Tass news agency was reporting “A spokesman for the navy’s general staff said that one of the possibilities was that the accident had been caused by collision with a foreign submarine.” It added that “A source in the Northern Fleet command said he believed this was the key version. He did not rule out that the foreign submarine was also damaged and was now not far from Kursk.” Earlier, navy officials insisted the submarine was in good condition. They had said nothing about a collision. NTV television news had initially reported that water gushed through the submarine’s torpedo tubes during a firing exercise and flooded the front of the vessel. The navy denied the report