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Soviet officials have confirmed that a crippled nuclear submarine sank in the Atlantic early today.
蘇聯多位官員已確認表示，今天凌晨，一艘殘破的核潛艇在大西洋沉沒。
US officials believe the sub carried at least sixteen nuclear missiles.
多位美國官員表示，這艘潛水艇里至少有16顆帶核彈頭導彈。
Explosion and fire on the vessel last Friday killed three crewmen.
上周五，這艘潛水艇發生的爆炸，引起了大火，導致3名機務人員死亡。
The rest of the crew was successfully evacuated before the vessel sank.
其他機務人員在潛水艇沉沒以前，成功獲得營救。
Soviet officials say no radiation leaked in the air or the ocean.
蘇聯多位官員表示，核輻射沒有泄露到空氣和海洋中。
It's unclear what may have caused the explosion that led to the sinking.
目前尚不清楚是什么導致了爆炸從而引發了船體沉沒。
A news agency in Beirut released a videotape today with pleas from three Frenchmen held for more than a year by the Islamic Jihad.
今天，貝魯特的一家通訊社發布了一段視頻，這則視頻里，3名被伊斯蘭吉哈德分子扣留1年多的法國人發出了懇求解救。
Each hostage called on the French government to change its policy in the Middle East.
每位人質都懇請法國政府改變其對中東的政策。
Melody Walker reports from Paris.
下面請聽梅洛迪·沃克為您從巴黎發回的報道。
During the twenty-eight-minute recording, the three hostages criticized the French government for failing to gain their release,
在這則長達28分鐘的視頻里，這3名法國人質譴責法國政府沒能爭取到他們的釋放，
and said they had the impression they were being forgotten.
同時表示他們覺得自己已經被遺忘了。
Taking turns reading prepared texts, the two diplomats and one journalist looked physically exhausted and emaciated.
這3人輪流閱讀準備好的內容，其中2人是外交官，另外1人是記者。他們看起來十分疲憊，面色憔悴。
Declaring that he was at the end of his rope,
其中一名人質說道，自己已經撐不住了，
one of the hostages said that the government forgot about the remaining hostages after the release of two Frenchmen in June.
他還說，6月兩名法國人質得到釋放后，政府就忘了剩下的人質。
A total of seven French citizens are currently held hostage in Lebanon.
現在，黎巴嫩共計有7名法國人質。
A communique from the Islamic Jihad which accompanied the video cassette
伊斯蘭吉哈德分子發出了一份公報，并附帶了這則28分鐘的視頻，
calls on France to negotiate the release of seventeen Shi'ite Prisoners Jailed in Kuwait.
旨在要求法國協商釋放科威特囚禁的17名什葉派。
The French Minister for Foreign Affairs did not comment on the content of the video cassette or the demands,
法國外長對視頻以及吉哈德分子的要求都未置評，
but said tonight that the government was doing everything possible to free the hostages.
但他今晚表示，法國政府已經竭盡所能解救這些人質。
For National Public Radio, this is Melody Walker in Paris.
感謝收聽梅洛迪·沃克為您從巴黎發回的國家公共電臺報道。
Skies are clearing over Oklahoma where heavy rains have produced what's being called "the worst flooding in the history of that state".
俄克拉荷馬州的天氣一片晴朗，這次暴雨導致該州出現了“史上最嚴重的洪災”。
Thousands of people began returning to their homes and officials began the task of assessing the damage.
無數人開始重返家園，很多官員也開始評估損失。
Floods have caused millions of dollars in damage,
這次洪災導致重大損失，
but specific estimates may not come until tomorrow when clean-up operations are expected to start.
但精確的估測結果明天才能出來，然后才會進行清掃工作。
