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...escaped an I.R.A. bombing attempt on her life last October at Brighton, in the south of England, called the attack "barbaric." Echoing her sentiments, the Irish Republic's Prime Minister, Garret FitzGerald, described the I.R.A. assault as "cruel and cynical" and pledged that Irish security forces would help hunt the attackers down. Police suspect that the killers may have slipped across the border into the republic, less than five miles from Newry...
When Texas Oilmen Nelson Bunker Hunt and his brother William Herbert went headlong into the silver market in 1979 and 1980, they pushed the value of the precious metal from $6 to $50 per oz. and accumulated a hoard worth about $10 billion. That forced up the cost of everything from photographic film to jewelry, and tempted thousands of Americans to sell the family sterling. But the Hunts lost as much as $1 billion in a day in early 1980, when the speculative bubble burst and silver prices collapsed. Five years later, the Hunt family's woes continue to grow...
Clancy had gone directly to N.I.P. with the manuscript of The Hunt because his only previously published writing, a letter to the editor and a three-page article about MX missiles, had appeared in the press's monthly magazine, Proceedings of the U.S. Naval Institute. N.I.P. grabbed Clancy's book; as it happened, the editors had just decided to publish original fiction, provided it was "wet"--about the Navy...
What rescued The Hunt from the publishing boneyard was Clancy's gripping narrative. Navy buffs and thriller adepts have been mesmerized by the story of Soviet Submarine Captain Marko Ramius, who seeks to defect to the U.S., bringing a billion-dollar present with him. This is Red October, a ballistic- missile-armed submarine, or "boomer," equipped with a new, silent propulsion system. In a message to his superior in Moscow, Ramius challenges the whole Soviet navy to catch him. He then takes off for Norfolk, together with a group of equally disaffected officers and an unsuspecting crew. Moscow dispatches...
...former CIA chief, Admiral Stansfield Turner, is quoted as saying, "(Clancy) makes you appreciate that decisions naval commanders on both sides may have to make in peacetime could lead the United States and the Soviet Union into war." Readers might well hope that the highly placed fans of The Hunt will keep the admiral's thought in mind...