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...Francisco seemed like the promised land. Finally I would find out about the legendary west coast. The minute I got there the whole myth began to materialize. There were my sister and her husband, both deeply tanned, waiting in their MG. I climbed into the back, and we sped through South San Francisco into the city. Fortunately, it was dark, so I didn't see the heavy industry or the huge sign painted on rocks and set into a dull green hill, saying, "Welcome to South San Francisco...
...their demand for a clause specifically forbidding paramilitary forces to operate across the buffer zones. Instead, he substituted a secret protocol to the effect that Washington will not oppose Israeli retaliation in the event of future raids. The Israelis accepted this. Armed with their affirmative response, he once more sped back down the Judean hills to Ben Gurion Airport and made the 126-mile flight back to Damascus to wrap up the agreement. "We've got it," he was finally able to cable Washington. In a follow-up telephone call, Kissinger and his White House liaison, Brig. General Brent Scowcroft...
...Busch reconstructed the series of events, the S.L.A. trio sped away from the store in a red and white van, then pulled up behind a parked car. Harris and one of the women took the car at gunpoint from its two occupants. "We are S.L.A.," Harris announced. "We need your car. I have to kill someone, and I don't want to kill...
...Kennedy Jr., 13, was mugged. A strapping youth, aged about 18, stepped into the boys' path, brandished a stick at John and said, "Get the hell off the bike." When John did not respond quickly enough, the thief knocked him to the ground, grabbed his tennis racket and sped off on his $145 ten-speed Bianchi racer. Secret Service men, who are charged with John's protection until his 16th birthday, were red-faced. Apparently John had passed up a ride in the Secret Service car, jumped on his bicycle and headed off on a path where...
...soon surrounded set, actors and crew. In next to no time, Fireman Steve McQueen came to the rescue. Rehearsing for his role as fire chief in The Towering Inferno, McQueen had been training on another lot with Peter Lucarelli, battalion chief of the Los Angeles fire department. When Lucarelli sped off to the real fire, Steve tagged along, followed by Wife Ali McGraw. Donning helmet and coat, he joined firefighters and helped pull the hoses into line. "It's on-the-job training," said a proud but anxious Ali from a safe distance. As for Steve, he proved something...