1.   Beijing will be particularly unhappy about the inclusion of eight diesel submarines in the Taiwan package.

2.   Bush approved the sale of the diesel submarines, which past presidents have declined to sell Taiwan, after extensive discussion with his aides.

3.   China has purchased four Soviet-era Kilo-class diesel powered submarines en route to building a fleet of about two-dozen boats.

4.   China also deployed two Russian-made Kilo-class diesel submarines, expanding its already sizable submarine force.

5.   For that, they said, the defendants considered diesel military submarines in Russia and began negotiations to buy one.

6.   Still, the Bush offer does break into what Beijing had labeled dangerous new ground by authorizing the sale of eight diesel submarines.

7.   The diesel submarine was about as inhospitable a place to work as one could imagine.

8.   This encounter came through the agency of Bernard T. Casey, late of the Bronx, my friend and shipmate on the diesel submarine Carbonero.

9.   When one diesel submarine successfully torpedoed a Streetfighter, the other ships quickly collapsed on the sub and reciprocated the destruction.

10.   The diesel submarines, which can stay at sea for several weeks, have sophisticated search and attack sonars.