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Late in the war, two B-17 bombers collided over Belgium at 13,500 ft., and one of them was sheared in two. From the main section, one crewman succeeded in bailing out, but the rest crashed to their deaths. In the tail, Joe Frank Jones Jr., a 19-year-old gunner, tried to get out the escape hatch, found it jammed. He tried the window, but it was too small. He was trapped inside the plunging fragment. When Belgian peasants found him lying in a field, still alive, they took him to a hospital. There he lay unconscious...
...reasons for the discomfort in Western Europe are complicated. One aspect is economic: there is concern about the technological gap that has opened up between the U.S. and Japan on the one hand and the old Continent on the other, mainly in such fields as microprocessors, information technologies and bioengineering. Linked to that imbalance is a lingering worry over slow growth and high unemployment. Another reason for the sense of drift is demographic. The 60% of Europeans born since V-E day tend to dwell less on the horrors of World War II than on a U.S.-Soviet rivalry that...
Some of Western Europe's concerns will be on display for Ronald Reagan at the main diplomatic event of his controversial European visit, the annual economic summit meeting of seven leading industrial powers--the U.S., Britain, France, Italy, West Germany, Canada and Japan--that will take place in Bonn from May 2 to May 4. At the top of the summit agenda, along with problems of international trade, will be unhappiness over U.S. budget deficits, high interest rates and the uncertainties that the dollar is creating in European money markets...
...military rule. Meanwhile, the IMF has suspended $1.5 billion in loans that the country had expected to receive from the fund. Following the IMF's stern lead, banks in the U.S. and Western Europe halted talks with Brazil about rescheduling payments on its $102 billion debt. One of the main reasons for the IMF's action was that Brazil's annual inflation rate has been running higher than 230%, far above the 120% target level set by the government in its loan agreement with the fund...
...members of the art and picture departments, canceled weekend plans and got down to work. Around the country, correspondents switched their attention from old Coke aficionados and Pepsi partisans to gastroenterological surgeons and cancer experts. Senior Writer George Church and Associate Editor Evan Thomas dovetailed their efforts on the main story about the President's operation. Senior Correspondent Peter Stoler, who once served as a TIME Medicine writer, was pressed into action, flying from New York City to Washington to report from the scene...