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...theft scandals at the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland; and the May 16 suicide of Admiral Jeremy ("Mike") Boorda, the Chief of Naval Operations. Boorda and other top Navy brass were briefed on the case several times. But Navy officials insist the smuggling investigation, code-named Operation White Stallion, was perceived by Boorda and his colleagues not as another blot on the service but as evidence of its hard-nosed antidrug policy. "We've said time and time again, there's no place for drugs in the U.S. Navy," says Rear Admiral Kendall Pease, the Navy's senior spokesman...
...have preferred going in under cover of darkness, but by the time Smith's order came through, streaks of morning light were already appearing above the Dalmatian coast. At sunrise Berndt and his Marines, their faces covered with camouflage paint, had boarded a pair of enormous CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters-16-ton, seven-blade monsters. "We were so focused on the mission, I don't think anybody had any time to be nervous," recalls Berndt. "We were all excited that our young captain was alive and well...
...they approached the area where O'Grady's signal beacon had been traced. The pilots saw bright yellow smoke coming from trees near a rocky pasture; O'Grady had set off a flare. The first Super Stallion, commanded by Major William Tarbutton, touched down, trying to avoid crude pine fence posts with barbed wire strung between them. Some 20 Marines scrambled out to set up a security perimeter...
...Crimson's game against Pennsylvania proved much less of a challenge than Apollo Creed was for the Italian Stallion. Leading by 20 points at halftime, the cagers never trailed on their way to a 71-59 victory...
...Zola from the beginning establishes a symbolic correspondence between the condition of the animals who work in or near the mine and the state of the human beings reduced to the status of animals in the mine. This correlation is articulated most pronouncedly in the case of a white stallion who is lowered into Le Voreux towards the commencement of both movie and book. The film reveals how the pure white of his coat is quickly soiled by the coal of the mine, and effectively relates this corruption to the human realm in the person of Catherine...