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...aboard were presumed to have drowned. In Jordan, Khalil Wazir, also known as Abu Jihad, the deputy commander of Fatah, the largest P.L.O. guerrilla group, claimed that the commandos were killed in onshore battles with Israeli forces. He said the ship was heading out to sea when it was sunk...
...there you have it. I've sunk as low as a critic can go. I've used (sob!) a superlative, a commendation that will probably condemn me to the seventh ring of Rex Reed's private hell. Too bad: Thompson's Berklee show, and the man, deserve nothing less
...real problems. Flashing instructions from Washington to submarines in the first moments of nuclear war would be difficult, even assuming the submarines, held in fixed locations, had not been found and sunk by the Soviets in advance of a nuclear assault. If the subs survived and launched their laser-generating bombs, a greater difficulty would arise. All laser beams have trouble cutting through the atmosphere to destroy missiles at the start of their flight, but X-ray lasers are among the least penetrating. They could hit missiles only at the top of the boost phase, and probably would be best...
...facts, in South Africa are these: after the 1960 Sharpeville massacre, in which the government simply destroyed the internal opposition, the foundations of apartheid were sunk sleeper and deep into South African society. From 1960 to 1974. 1.5 million Blacks were forcibly relocated from "white" rural or urban areas to be kept in tin shacks in the destitute bantustans or homelands. Petty legal segregation was extended. The apparatus of the police state was crested, including a law permitting unlimited detention without trial. Despite these Draconian measures, the South African economy soared. Only the others country--Japan--outpaced South African...
That's just plain wrong. Those who attended Friday night's 53-51 loss to Penn remember that superstar Perry Bromwell-who eventually sunk a game-winning 18-ft, jumper with four seconds remaining-did not start the ballgame...