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"It started," said one horrified eyewitness, "with a small snapping sound." Then the noise mounted, first seeming like a wrecking ball thudding against the sleek new building, and then like an explosion lashing through the crowded lobby. When the hideous din subsided, replaced by the muted cries of the injured...
After he learned of the raid, Haig summoned his senior aides and Middle East specialists to the State Department's seventh-floor operations center. They were still in their Sunday sports clothes. They agreed that the U.S. should not break the news of the attack: to do so would...
Landing a jet on an aircraft carrier at night. That flat description understates the most harrowing exercise in military aviation. Seated at the controls of a plane that may weigh as much as 25 tons, a pilot approaches his carrier from the stern. All he sees to guide him are...
As the Grumman-built Prowler dropped in for touchdown, the Nimitz's landing signal officer, in charge of directing aircraft approaches, saw that it was too high and swinging dangerously leftward-and then too far right. By radio he ordered the pilot to gun his engines and fly clear...
Across much of the country, plunging temperatures brought record snowfalls and drifts as high as 15 ft. In some places, power cables were downed, vehicles were stalled, and hundreds of motorists were stranded-including a wedding party marooned for eleven hours aboard a bus on Salisbury Plain. In Scotland, a...