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Flight 123 was running only twelve minutes behind its scheduled departure when it lifted off at 6:12 p.m. Tokyo time. Following its flight plan, the big plane headed south, climbed to 24,000 ft., then banked sharply right, toward the west, as it passed near the small island of Oshima, south of Haneda. At 6:25 p.m., when the aircraft was 20 miles west of the island and approaching the Izu Peninsula, Tokyo-area air-traffic controllers caught the first hint of danger...
Banner headlines in Iraqi newspapers last Friday proclaimed WE DESTROYED KHARG ISLAND. The papers reported a "massive blitz" by Iraqi planes against the terminal, one of the world's largest, through which flow 90% of Iran's crude-oil exports of 1.6 million bbl. a day. If indeed Iraq had destroyed the terminal, it would have been a turning point in the five-year-old gulf war. By late last week, however, oil-industry experts concluded that although Iraqi jets had managed to penetrate the heavily defended southeastern, landward side of the complex known as "T terminal," the strike would...
...panel rejected as unconstitutional part of a plan to organize regional elections in New Caledonia, a major step toward making the country's Pacific territory independent. The review panel said that the bill, which would have maintained New Caledonia's defense and economic links with France while dividing the island into four voting regions, favored native Kanaks at the expense of French settlers, known as caldoches...
...express how wretched we all feel about this thing," Law Examiner John E. Holt-Harris Jr. told the New York Times. The board is offering various ways to take part or all of a new test. The 542 aspirants are stunned. Three phoned a Long Island lawyer to inquire about a possible class action. Said Candidate Ronald Korybski: "Who wants to study all that again?" The answer is nobody. Still unanswered: Were the tests lost, or were they stolen to force a rerun by some unprepared victim of that other nightmare...
...this hotel were like 90 days to me. No one saw me. I worked six days a week, and I was in ecstasy," he says. "Then we had to get financing, and that was work." It dawned on Wynn that his earlier, exhibitionist model-battling treasure ships outside Treasure Island, for example-needed to be turned, literally, outside in. "I thought, Could I have been wrong all this time about the feature being in the front of the hotel?" says Wynn. "The audience shouldn't be on the sidewalk. It should be inside-eating, drinking, gambling, shopping...