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When Samuel Loring Morison, a ship analyst at the U.S. Naval Intelligence Support Center in Suitland, Md., noticed three photos of a Soviet aircraft carrier lying on a colleague's desk, he thought they might be of interest to Jane's Defense Weekly, a British magazine. Morison, a part-time editor of a sister publication, filched the photos, which had been taken by an American KH-11 satellite, clipped the "Secret" markings off the corners and mailed the pictures to London...
...your Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters. The princess, who shares her family's zest for hunting, took a turn at the firing line to check out her troops' new assault rifle and scored an impressive nine out of ten points. Anne then clambered into a 24-ton armored personnel carrier, scoring five hits out of seven with its cannon and rattling 70 rounds from its machine gun dead into the bull's-eye. Then the fearless princess threw the APC into gear and sped back to the barracks, presumably for a spot...
Only a few at the topmost levels of U.S. policymaking had foreseen how Veliotes would get his wish. More than 30 hours after the seagoing hijack drama had ended, a flight of four F-14 Tomcat fighter-interceptors from the aircraft carrier Saratoga pulled alongside a chartered EgyptAir Boeing 737 jetliner just south of the Mediterranean island of Crete. The Egyptian aircraft had left Cairo's Al Maza military airport 1 hour and 45 minutes earlier, apparently headed for Tunis. Aboard it were the hijackers, accompanied by two representatives of the Palestine Liberation Organization and a number of Egyptian diplomats...
...only highly contagious feature of AIDS is the epidemic of fear and misinformation sweeping the nation. By hosting Cameron's appearance, the Conservative Club became a willing and deliberate carrier of that destructive contagion...
...next deadly virus will have two characteristics: it will have a long latency period, so you won't know who is actually a carrier; and it will have no clear starting point in the population. No longer will heterosexuals enjoy the relative safety that they currently feel with AIDS...