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...members of the rescue team, drawn from the four services, belonged to elite all-volunteer groups. Most were tough Army paratroopers. Their instructors reportedly included advisers from Britain's crack Special Air Services Regiment (S.A.S.), which has been effectively employed against Irish Republican Army terrorists in England and Northern Ireland. West Germany's Grenzschutzgruppe (G.S.G. 9), similar antiterrorist specialists, are also said to have helped in the training. With its diverse support forces, the team flew to undisclosed desert sites in the U.S. Southwest, where it conducted seven full rehearsals of the operation, some at night, to overcome the problem...
November 1970: On orders of President Nixon, about 100 crack commandos choppered to the Son Tay prison camp near Hanoi to free 70 American prisoners of war thought to be held there. But all the raiders managed to do was dumbfound half a dozen North Vietnamese guards. The prisoners had been moved elsewhere weeks earlier...
...Economic reality has yet to crack present supply-restricted bases of conservation, John H. Alschuler, energy adviser to the Coalition of Northeastern Municipalities, said yesterday. "Community response to prices will ultimately create political momentum at the local level," he added...
...litany of U.S. economic woes at times seems endless. Week after week, interest rates crack new records; home owners face 17% mortgages, and companies confront 20% business loans. Energy, the oxygen of industrial life, has become so costly and politically controlled that the U.S. can no longer be certain of enough fuel to keep its factories running and homes heated. The output of goods per hour worked has stagnated. From 1948 to 1973, the productivity of American employees increased 2.9% annually, thus permitting steadily higher real wages and higher standards of living. Last year productivity dropped .9%. The real median...
...baseball fans, the thought of springtime without the national pastime was at least as shocking as Rachel Carson's ghostly 1962 musing about environmental death in the season of new life. Spring without the crack of the bat, the call of the ump, the roar of the crowd! Only the players, of all people, shouting "St-e-e-rike...