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...were the first [record] store here," Matros says. "[Since then] the competition has just piled up: Tower, HMV, Newbury. It's put a chokehold...
...Although the alternative atmosphere may be ruined, from a business prospect, the large chains have brought in other genres of people and I don't think they have hurt the Square at all," says Tower Records manager Tracey Smith...
Russian bombers were supposed to target the Grozny television tower, the rail terminal, the presidential palace and a few military installations. But the air strikes went badly from the first, hitting residential buildings, dropping flesh-shredding cluster bombs and touching off a worldwide cry of outrage at the high civilian casualties. Some critics accused Yeltsin of trying to terrorize the Chechens with indiscriminate bombing, but military experts do not see it that way. "The bombing," says a U.S. Air Force officer, "doesn't look like terror as much as incompetence. A lot of them can't find the targets they...
...refueling stop. Only minutes earlier, Major Favier and his G.I.G.N. troopers had arrived from Mallorca at an adjacent air base. They spent the morning hours practicing every detail of a rescue operation on their Airbus while Marseilles police chief Alain Gehin negotiated with the hijackers from the control tower...
...taxied slowly across the tarmac and stopped within 10 feet of the main terminal. Yahia now issued his final ultimatum: If the plane did not take off by 5 p.m., he said, "we will take action." At 5:08, one of the terrorists fired two shots at the control tower, shattering its bay window. Pasqua immediately gave the green light for the gendarmes' attack...