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One by one, the giant grapnels, which were attached by cables to the Glomar Explorer, seized sections of the stricken submarine in their steel jaws. Slowly the winches aboard the Glomar
Explorer began to lift the submarine from its grave, tugging hard to unstick the hull from the seabed. It was a nerve-racking process. The submarine's dead weight of at least 4,000 tons taxed even Glomar Explorer's powerful winches. The ship shuddered and reverberated with...
At some point in the lift-one estimate places it at about halfway up the 16,000 ft.-the cables rattled. Though the cause remains a secret, the consequence was soon evident. The sub's hull, already weakened and damaged by the explosion and severe water pressures, cracked into...
Kissinger occasionally catnaps on one of two bunks in the green stateroom he is sharing on this shuttle with Wife Nancy. From time to time he consults a fat blue looseleaf notebook crammed with constantly updated bargaining positions, options and alternatives, or studies the flood of incoming "Tosec" or outgoing...
That only meant the speculation was sure to continue. For example, one of the most persistent suspicions is that the CIA helped engineer the murder of South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem when he was overthrown in a military uprising in 1963. No solid evidence of such...