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Indian Salesman Hussain Sahfi, his business suit stained with blood, still seemed in shock last week as he uttered those words. Just before dawn last Friday, Pan American World Airways Flight 73 had touched down at Pakistan's Karachi International Airport on a scheduled, 21-hour flight from Bombay to Frankfurt and New York. Eighteen hours later, a few minutes before 10 p.m. Friday, the 747 jumbo jet still stood on the tarmac, but by then at least 17 of the plane's estimated 400 passengers and crew members were dead, victims of a hijacking and a subsequent firefight. About...
...there in his John Deere 6620 SideHill combine. Carey cannot afford a combine of his own, so he hires his neighbor's machine. The two will talk the quiet talk of farmers for a few minutes, looking at the breathtaking beauty of abundance. Then, in the huge stillness of dawn along the Nishnabotna River, Anderzhon will climb into the combine's high cab and turn the starter key, shattering the stillness with 145 steel- throated horses...
...momentum in the seesaw war has increasingly swung in Iran's favor. In February, Tehran staged its most sophisticated assault of the long and bloody conflict. Named Val Fajr (I Swear by the Dawn), the attack seized the Iraqi oil port of Fao. Iraq recovered briefly by capturing the Iranian border town of Mehran in May, only to lose it again in June. Though it enjoys an enormous advantage in equipment, its reliance on rigid defensive tactics makes its soldiers vulnerable to the night attacks and lightning raids of its enemy. "Remember," says a senior U.S. official, "the Iranians...
Abraham Lincoln sneaked into the Willard one dawn just a year later, his bodyguards having cloaked his movements from Illinois because of rumors of assassination. When the President-elect took his boots off in his second-story suite, he found he had forgotten his slippers. Henry Willard had some, but they were not big enough for Abe. Willard's grandfather, William Bradley, just then visiting, had huge feet and slippers to fit. He sent them over to Lincoln's rooms...
Final preparations for the sovereign display began before dawn, as crack marksmen took up their positions on the rooftops and security men disguised themselves as bewigged footmen. By 10 a.m. the first of the 1,800 guests began taking their seats in the abbey. First Lady Nancy Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher were in attendance, along with Opposition Leaders Neil Kinnock, David Owen and David Steel. So too were Actor Michael Caine, TV Host David Frost and Singer Elton John, sporting purple glasses and a ponytail...