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...draft report, that's exactly what happened: A hatch cover blew off one of the six-foot beams that divide the plane's cavernous center fuel tank into smaller compartments, sending another beam crashing forward and forcing a third beam and the wall it held up into the cargo hold. That cut the electrical power to the plane, weakening the fuselage of the old jet. "The news that the cause was possibly mechanical failure on an old plane is likely one of the factors fueling demand for newer aircraft," said Steve Binder, senior managing director of Bear Stearns. "Many...
...April when the Amistad docked in Mystic, Connecticut, to unload its captured cargo. It was a blustery 40 degrees, and the West Africans were dressed in rags. Iron neck yokes and chains connected one to another and prevented them from wiping the brine and dirt from their eyes...
...hammered away at FBI agents who collected the evidence, pointing out that several photos had to be staged because the pieces had been moved from their original spots. FBI chemist Ron Kelly acknowledged that an FBI photographer failed to take a picture of one piece of the truck's cargo hold before it was collected, and improperly documented a photograph of another piece. Realizing that the crime lab represented a weak link in their case after a highly critical report recently alleged that lab workers bungled numerous tests or selectively reported their findings, prosecutors had dropped several crime lab experts...
...Chile for an air show. As scores of Latin American officers and hundreds of civilians squinted into the sunny sky, an F-16 Falcon soared high up, then roared down in a kamikaze dive. A B-2 Stealth bomber flew over the Santiago fairground. A giant C-17 air cargo plane rumbled along the taxiway with a Chilean flag fluttering from a cockpit window. The State Department was furious with the stunts, but the air show accomplished exactly what the Pentagon had wanted. Within six months, Chile and Brazil had sent formal requests to Washington for information on buying...
...United States has no moral integrity. For over 200 years it has inculcated its citizens with lies and pipe dreams about a nation of "immigrants." It tends to disregard the millions of Africans brought as cargo, the millions of Native Americans who had occupied the land for centuries before the first European arrived and the millions of Latinos whose forbears slept one night and woke up the next day as a people oppressed by the United States...