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...eight detonators behind false walls in adjoining first-floor apartments, a commander for the Carabinieri police told TIME. Inside the dilapidated three-story building in a Naples neighborhood known for heavy organized-crime presence, several maps were found with the U.S. Consulate and NATO bases in nearby Bagnoli and Capodichino circled. A police spokesman confirmed that officers also found a photograph - circled several times - of Britain's military chief, Admiral Sir Michael Boyce. Also seized were forged identity documents, some 100 cell phones and pictures of "martyrs of the Jihad." The police commander noted that none of the men arrested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 2/2/2003 | See Source »

...unsettling second U.S. Navy Lieut. John B. Barnes thought that the laws of aerodynamics had suddenly been repealed. There he was, climbing away from the runway at Italy's Capodichino Airport, and on each side of him the wing of his flashy new F8U Crusader jet was turned upright 6½ feet from the tips-as if parked on a cramped carrier deck. Why the tower had cleared him for take-off and how his plane had staggered into the air with the outboard wing panels folded up, he could not say. But there was no time to speculate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: He Wanted Wings | 8/15/1960 | See Source »

...Roses. In Naples, the same week, Father Lombardi landed at the Capodichino airport-just as a huge truck sped into the city, bearing, under a gilded, pillared canopy, the picture of the Madonna di Pompeii. A salvo of 21 guns sounded in greeting, showers of flower petals filled the air and hundreds of thousands of candles were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Age of Love | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

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