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...most destructive and audacious act of sabotage in South Africa's history. In a series of coordinated nighttime raids against petroleum complexes in the small oil towns of Sasolburg and Secunda, black nationalist guerrillas cut their way through chain-link fences surrounding two adjoining refineries in Sasolburg and then planted several limpet mines with expert precision. The explosions destroyed a total of eight fuel storage tanks and set off towering fires that raged for nearly two days. A third installation at Secunda, 90 miles east of Johannesburg, was rocked by seven bomb blasts but suffered only limited damage...
...hours. They found that the first bullet had torn a fist-size hole in the lower left side of his back, sliced through his intestine and exited from his chest. A second bullet had broken into at least two pieces, apparently as it glanced off a chain-link fence a few yards from Jordan. Fragments struck him in the right thigh and upper left chest. During the operation the doctors removed three small fragments of the first bullet and the damaged section of Jordan's intestine; the pieces of the second bullet were not removed, because they were...
Bauer set an example for his mates when he rocketed Joe Craven's second pitch of the game a long way over the 18-foot chain-link fence in left. They imitated well: Santos-Buch four hits, two RBIs; Mark Bingham two hits, two walks, three RBIs and two runs, Bobby Kelley two RBIs, Billy Blood two RBIs...
...Munich in 1972, where eleven Israeli competitors and coaches died in the wake of an attack by Palestinian terrorists, security has been a paramount consideration. That meant building an Olympic Village seven miles from Lake Placid, accessible to vehicles only via a narrow forest road and surrounded by double chain-link fences 12 ft. high that send out an alarm at the slightest touch. With its narrow-windowed dormitories, the village bears an unfortunate resemblance to a prison; it will, indeed, become a minimum-security federal pen after the Games...
...ever doubted that inmate 19437-148 had an inventive mind, but officials at the federal prison at Lompoc, Calif, 170 miles north of Los Angeles, had no idea how cleverly he had diagnosed their security system. Shortly after sunset one day last week, the prisoner approached the ten-foot chain-link fence with a pair of wire cutters, a crude ladder he had fashioned and an odd device made of a toothbrush taped to one end of a broom handle. Knowing that any sudden movement of the fence would set off an electric alarm, he propped the ladder near...