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...welfare. "My dad told me I could make money if I would take classified material from my workplace and give it to him," Michael said. "I was shocked and afraid of what my dad was suggesting." Nonetheless, Michael did it. He first gave his father secret papers from a "burn bag" while he was assigned to a Navy fighter squadron in Virginia Beach, Va., in 1983. Aboard the carrier Nimitz, starting in 1984, Michael routed messages about U.S. tracking of Soviet submarines and filched copies for his dad. "My father was pleased and said it looked like we were...
...Mafia 37 years ago in Palermo, Sicily. One of the four men conducting the ceremony pricked the initiate's finger and rubbed the blood on the picture of a saint. The picture was then set afire. The act meant that "if I should betray the organization, my flesh would burn like this saint," Tommaso Buscetta told fascinated spectators in a jammed federal courtroom in New York City last week. The stocky mobster then coolly proceeded to betray his blood brothers in a most dramatic way, fingering seven of the 22 defendants in the courtroom as Mafia members involved...
...past two years in Afghanistan, stated that half a million to a million civilians have been killed by the Soviet army. In addition, four million refugees have fled the country. The Soviet Union has achieved this by means of a ruthless policy in which they level entire villages, burn crops, destroy fields and irrigation canals, kill livestock and use chemical weapons in order to starve the Afghans out of their country...
...took the site off its priority list. But heavy rains from Hurricane Gloria sent 100,000 gal. of oily, smelly chemical wastes rushing back up to the surface of this presumably cleaned-up site and into the Susquehanna. "There was an extremely strong odor that would burn your nostrils," said City Clerk Paul McGarry, who went to investigate after residents began phoning with complaints. "It looked like liquid...
...into training. When it came time for their shuttle missions, they imitated precisely the cadences and vocabularies they had heard so many times on television beaming in from their weightless heroes. "That's affirmative," one camper would say, all business, laconic: "You are a go for nominal de-orbit burn." They caught just right the astronaut's modulations of stoical understatement and occasional jubilant gee whiz. "We're bringin' this bird home!" the commander of one mission cried when he was go for re-entry...