The Nation : Arms Crates Wash Ashore
Wooden crates with Russian and Spanish writing on the outside and filled with live mortar shells and possibly radioactive materials washed ashore along a 50-mile stretch of Florida beaches, authorities said. Police and Navy officials speculated that the weapons came from the Soviet nuclear submarine that sank off the Bermuda coast Oct. 6 or from a freighter that went down two weeks ago off Lake Worth Inlet. The Palm Beach bomb squad placed the weapons in a bombproof trailer. Sheriff Richard Wille said that between 16 and 20 crates were found.
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