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...sailboat (worth $10,000 new) had been damaged during shipment to Montreal and had served Britannia poorly. Said disgusted Skipper Warren: "She was lame: kindness called for us to put her down." The task proved almost Olympian. Paint thinner sloshed on the decks to fuel the blaze evaporated before Crewman Hunt could kindle it. "His performance was wretched," said Warren. Canadian security forces, fearing a bombing, rushed a Coast Guard cutter, police boat and helicopter to the scene, and soon made plain what part of an 'orse they thought the British were...
...village of Traves (pop. 357) in the Vosges Mountains of France at first thought they were Bastille Day firecrackers. But word quickly spread that Le Renfort, the small, neat vacation home of the quiet, graying man known locally as "the German," was afire. Curious villagers gathered to watch the blaze and were still there when firemen pulled a charred body out of the library. Muttered Ernest Rigoulot, the village mayor: "I wanted him to leave. We pressured him, but he didn't want...
...three empty cartridges were found on his terrace. With positive identification of the charred body difficult, some townspeople began wondering whether Peiper might have in fact staged the shooting and fire to cover his own getaway. Mayor Rigoulot, for his part, let it be known that, even before the blaze, he had decided not to renew the German's residence permit next year...
...engines of the Hercules were kept racing, the commando units, in civilian dress, fanned out across the airfield and headed for the old terminal (with its WELCOME TO UGANDA sign) where the skyjackers were guarding the hostages. After a 15-minute blaze of gunfire, it was all over. The terrorists, according to Israeli reports, were dead, and the hostages were on the planes. It had taken less than a half-hour, and the transports were back in the air. Before they left, the Israelis badly damaged or destroyed the Soviet-made Ugandan air force MIGS that were parked...
George Plimpton, no punk at the business, is at it again. Named the commissioner of fireworks for New York City in 1973, Plimpton, author and professional Mittyman, is not even burned up that Macy's offered him no role in its $50,000 spectacular, which will blaze across Manhattan's skies on the night of July 4. Instead he will set off his own twelfth annual display at Amagansett, N.Y., and trust that he won't be arrested for his pyrotechnics-as he was four years ago when he failed to get the necessary permits...