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That could be limited to the party's suggestion of expanded powers for republics. But it opens the possibility that radicals could push through radical change such as Andrei D. Sakharov's suggested loose confederation of sovereign states, or even the breakup of the union into independent states...
Despite the danger, Cicippio, now 58, had genuinely enjoyed Beirut since he moved there in 1984. Educated at Rutgers University and the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, he gave up a 25-year banking career in the late 1970s, after the breakup of his first marriage, to work as a shipping manager in Jidda, Saudi Arabia. Following a four-year stint as an employee of an oil cartel in London, Cicippio accepted the job at the American University in June 1984. "None of us wanted him to go, but he had made up his mind," said his brother...
Something unprecedented had happened. Not only had the plane's tail engine lost its cone, but its fan had literally shattered. The disintegrating engine somehow flung shrapnel-like chunks of hot metal past the chamber designed to contain any such breakup. The pieces apparently ripped into all three hydraulic lines that converge at the tail, killing or at least vastly reducing hydraulic pressure...
...smoke and fire were heavy at one end of this upside-down cabin section, but the breakup opened a wide escape avenue at the other end. "I looked for where the emergency exit used to be," said David Landsberger, a New Jersey businessman who had been in Seat 13B. "But it wasn't there. Then I looked toward the front of the plane, and I saw daylight. Then I saw green stuff beyond the mud, and when I got out I found myself in a cornfield...
Greco lauded the passengers and crew for maintaining calm and said the nature of the breakup of the plane largely determined the pattern of deaths and injuries...