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...long afterward CBS yanked Rather from the White House, then occupied by Gerald Ford, and the speculation surrounding that move centered on the propriety of Rather's Houston response: Had he stood up to the President or had he sassed him? Yet Nixon's question was oddly on target. Rather was indeed running for something that night, had been running for it all of his adult life, and would continue to do so long after Nixon resigned. He made his goal perfectly clear to the network executives bidding for his services: "I'd like to lead...
...Shortly afterward, Government investigators suspect, one of the airport's 40 controllers decided to take the protest one step further. The investigators believe that the controller tampered with the tower's computer to erase the Aeroflot's identification tag; then either he or a colleague ordered the plane down to the dangerously low altitude. Such action would constitute a crime carrying a maximum penalty of a $10,000 fine and 20 years in prison...
...Guatemalan government, moving quickly to issue its own version of events, claimed that its forces stormed the embassy at the request of the Spanish Ambassador. "The terrorists sacrificed the hostages and immolated themselves afterward," read an official statement. The Ambassador vehemently denied the government account, saying that the police attacked his embassy "with extraordinary brutality," and that their behavior was "absolutely intolerable." In Madrid, the Spanish government handed the Guatemalan Ambassador a stiff note declaring that the police had acted "in violation of the most elementary norms of international law." In protest, Spain broke off diplomatic relations with Guatemala...
...Field Marshal of the Philippine armed forces. On Feb. 19, MacArthur was notified that the funds had been transferred. The very next day Quezon was put aboard a U.S. submarine and taken to safety. (He died in the U.S. in 1944.) MacArthur himself was ordered to leave Corregidor soon afterward. The garrison,, he left behind fought on until it was overrun...
...quiet satisfaction-nothing more. Chuck Noll, 48, had just become the first coach to win four Super Bowls, but he knew that in a few short hours he would feel the sadness that touches him after every game. "You throw so much into preparation, and then afterward there's nothing left, it's all over," he says. "The thrill isn't in the winning-it's in the doing...