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Last week two French magazines accused the terrorists of being French government agents. VSD and L'Evénement du Jeudi charged that agents of the Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE), France's CIA, had arranged the sabotage of the Greenpeace vessel. The accusation brought...
The protests were directed at the governing board of the BBC. The previous week, after objections from Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Home Secretary, Leon Brittan, the board had canceled a television documentary that featured interviews with Irish extremists, including an alleged leader of the Irish Republican Army. Thatcher, the...
The murder last week came only nine days after the killing of Palermo Police Commissioner Giuseppe Montana. Both men had been active in last year's arrest of a Mafia leader who later turned state's evidence. A deeply shocked Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi immediately summoned his top security...
Ueberroth himself firmly declared, "I played no role. It was Lee MacPhail [the owners' representative] and Don Fehr [the players'] who put baseball back on the field." Both MacPhail and Fehr, however, give the commissioner credit for keeping them at the bargaining table. And Ueberroth conceded later, "I put myself...
It was what old NASA hands affectionately call an Eddie Air Force Base kind of day: blue sky, visibility of 45 miles, perfect for a landing. And as the space shuttle Challenger touched down last week on the runway at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., in 95° heat, kicking up...