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...shooting star grants a wish. A feminine voice intones solemnly and langorously. "What I wish tonight is to find words to tell of another night, many years ago. "So, in classic folk style, The Night of the Shooting Stars emerges at something recounted, an admixture of remembered, imagined, and overheard details...
Elul understood that the Phalangists were talking about the murder of women and children, and told Yaron what he had overheard. Yaron went over to Hobeika and spoke with him quietly for five minutes, but Elul could not hear what was said. An hour later, a Phalangist liaison officer reported to Israeli officers, including Yaron, that the Phalangists had killed large numbers of people inside the camp...
...Brezhnev's dacha on the Baltic. That was a good sign. But Brezhnev had also been seeing more and more of Chernenko. The two often lunched together at a little French restaurant near the Kremlin and went out for a drink after work. Besides, Ninushkin, Andropov's aide, had overheard Brezhnev compliment Chernenko on the completion of a business deal with the Canadians. "Much better job than Andropov did on the natural gas business: he lost us that contract." Brezhnev had said...
Early last March an anonymous caller told police in Ventura, 40 miles northwest of Los Angeles along the Pacific Coast, that a "Mr. Morgan" had been overheard talking about transporting large sums of money across state lines. Suspecting an illegal cash-laundering operation, Ventura detectives tried to trace Morgan. The trail led to Morgan Aviation, an aircraft repair shop in a leased hangar at Mojave Airport on the edge of the Mojave Desert, 90 miles north of Los Angeles. The company was operated by William Morgan Hetrick, who used his middle name as his first. Ventura police notified...
...career her politeness meant she could be suckered out of a story even after she had it. Her book cites several examples: Presidential Aides Ron Nessen and Hamilton Jordan stalled or fibbed to persuade her to forget leaks that could embarrass their Administrations; CBS Reporter Lesley Stahl overheard, and promptly duplicated, Woodruffs exclusive on the appointment of Shirley Hufstedler as the first Cabinet-level Secretary of Education in 1979. The news items were fleeting, but the lesson lasted. Says Woodruff: "As with most competitive pursuits, nice reporters tend to finish last." Woodruff has also learned from her husband Albert Hunt...