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...Dawn was breaking along Venezuela's coastline as workers began the routine task of unloading an oil tanker at the Tacoa Arricifes generating plant, 20 miles northwest of Caracas. Suddenly and inexplicably, a half-filled storage tank onshore caught fire. Ignited, the 20,000 tons of fuel already in the tank turned the site into an inferno. As hundreds of rescue workers converged on the scene, superheated gases in the same tank erupted, trapping rescuers in a curtain of fire. Then, 17 hours later, a second tank nearby exploded. In the searing heat one fire engine reportedly just melted...
David Johansen: Live It Up. (Blue Sky/CBS). He was supposed to be too wild to be wrestled onto record. But they finally pinned him, Live. A dance-'till-dawn classic...
Scheer's book leaves the false impression that never before have senior officials sought to develop a "nuclear-war-fighting capability." Since the dawn of the atomic age, and particularly since the mid-1960s, American strategists and political leaders have had to ponder an inescapable dilemma: unless the U.S. has a credible answer to the question of what it would do if deterrence fails, deterrence itself is not credible...
...dawn announcement in Pretoria, General Constand Viljoen, chief of the South African Defense Force, explained that the raid, unofficially named "Operation Blanket," had been a pre-emptive strike against A.N.C. militants who had come to Lesotho over the past few months. According to Viljoen, the A.N.C. members were planning attacks in South Africa against political leaders in the black "homelands" of Transkei and Ciskei. South African defense officials displayed a rocket launcher, rifles and some grenades of Communist-bloc origin that they said had been captured in the raid...
...major complication occurred before dawn Tuesday as Clark lay in bed in the security-guarded third-floor intensive care unit. He was chatting with Dr. William DeVries, the surgeon who had implanted the mechanical organ. Asked Clark: "How am I doing?" Replied DeVries: "Just fine." The words were hardly spoken when Clark suddenly bejan to shudder uncontrollably. DeVries immediately placed Clark on a respirator and then injected him with the tranquilizer Valium and Dilantin, an anticonvulsant medication most commonly used to control epilepsy. During the next 2½ hours, the unconscious Clark suffered intermittent seizures, but the quivering was confined...