Government sends message wishing success to President Ronald Reagan and Premier Mikhail Gorbachev on the eve of the Superpower Summit in Iceland and calls on them to recover the missiles which sank to the bottom of the Atlantic in the Russian nuclear submarine last week.

Agency footage of the sinking of the Russian nuclear submarine.

Telephone interview with Tánaiste Dick Spring on teh governments concerns.

The reporter is Charlie Bird.

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