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Like the Entebbe rescue and a 1981 bombing raid that destroyed a nuclear reactor in Iraq, last week's attack had been elaborately planned. At dawn on Tuesday, eight F-15s took off from an air base in northern Israel, followed about 40 minutes later by eight F-16s. The F-16s were refueled by Israeli tanker planes; then they dived and continued to fly as low as possible over the Mediterranean to avoid radar detection, approaching Tunis from the south. While the F-16s staged the bombing raid, the F-15s remained in reserve some 500 miles away. Near...
...Dawn broke with clarity. Even the encircling, snow-topped Sierra Madre was etched sharply in the distance against an azure sky. This was unusual for Mexico City, which is normally shrouded in a brown smog generated by the exhausts of some 3 million cars. But in just four earthshaking minutes, starting at 7:18 a.m. last Thursday, the day's auspicious beginning turned into a nightmarish disaster--and the bright skies only illuminated the extent of the tragedy...
This past summer, though, has seen the dawn of utterly humorless, downright wimpy police approaches to enforcing the speed limit...
This Einstein sports a Princeton sweatshirt and keeps having flashbacks; Roeg clearly enjoys using them. His apparent guilt is hammered home repeatedly, but it never becomes credible. We learn, to our disbelief, that Einstein blames himself for nothing less than the dawn of the nuclear...
...Before dawn on Wednesday, the day of the scheduled march, police and military armored vehicles moved into position. They surrounded Athlone stadium, where the marchers were supposed to assemble, as well as the nearby black townships of Guguletu and Nyanga, and they blocked access to Pollsmoor prison, where Mandela is currently held. The march never took place, but there were abortive attempts at demonstrations in several places, as well as hit-and-run battles with police and widespread rioting in the townships. Several thousand marchers, led by clergymen, headed down Kromboom Road toward the prison. The police charged the procession...