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...military presence, too. The White House broke the news only last week, but it has been clear for some time that the Soviets have been installing facilities to handle missile-carrying submarines at the Cuban port of Cienfuegos. Acting on reports of unusual Soviet activity, U.S. intelligence stepped up aerial surveillance of Cuba in midsummer (TIME, July 27). Among other indicators was the fact that the huge Soviet AN-22 transports, used to fly earthquake relief supplies to Peru, were leaving Moscow with perhaps 65 passengers and arriving in Lima with only a dozen or so. The missing passengers...
...sort of an aerial billet-doux. "HI JOHN!" it read. "THINGS ARE EVEN BETTER AT SUFFOLK DOWNS." The offer offered free admission to any fan who admitted he had seen Harvard play Northeastern, and had a ticket stub to prove...
...President also requested the hiring of 1000 additional FBI agents to deal with campus outbreaks as well as aerial high jacking. The agents would supplement the FBI's current force of 7000 men and would cost an additional $23 million per year...
Meanwhile, another aerial drama was under way. Back in Amsterdam, the two "Senegalese" who had been denied passage by El Al had bought first-class tickets on Pan American's Flight 93, a 747. As Clipper 93 taxied toward its takeoff position, ground controllers?whom El Al had alerted about the attempted hijacking of its craft and about the suspicious passengers it had bumped off its flight and onto Pan American?radioed a warning to Captain Jack Priddy. He halted the 747 and walked through the passenger compartment looking for the pair. When he finally found them, they readily agreed...
...crowded briefing room in Tel Aviv, a lean Israeli colonel last week presented to the world what Israel considers proof of a major Egyptian cease-fire violation. The colonel's evidence came in the form of a series of large, fuzzy aerial photographs. To the untrained eye, the photos looked like little more than a jumble of black scratches and splotches on the desert sand. But to the Israeli military command, the pictures demonstrated that the Soviets and Egyptians had violated the truce as soon as it began at 1 a.m. on Aug. 8 by continuing to move...