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...threat to us is not after all a real threat, that the war we talk about is not really going to be a war. This may be the ultimate corruption caused by the television tube, which brings us the daily alarms but can also be snapped off, or the channel can be changed to the comfortable skirmishes of the Bird and Magic Johnson. Another prime-time show with Jimmy, Rosalynn, Chip and Amy and a cast of hundreds...
...determined were nearly identical, after some minor adjustments, to those on the night of the accident. He concluded that a northward current could have been flowing that night, just as Kennedy said. But Mehaute found that by 1:30 a.m., when the Senator said he had jumped into the channel, the tide would have been "weak to zero." Moreover, Mehaute said, just about then the tide turned and the current through the channel started flowing south. The implication was that the current would have carried Kennedy toward Edgartown's narrow inner harbor and the shore, not north toward Nantucket...
...Washington Star relied on entirely different evidence. It produced aerial photos, dated May and November 1969, of the sandbar opening through which ocean tides swept northward into Katama Bay, through the channel between Edgartown and Chappaquiddick and out into the sound. According to the pictures, the opening into Katama Bay was still clear in May but had been blocked by sand by November. The Star indicated that the opening had gradually silted up during the intervening months. The newspaper concluded that by July 18 the gap would have been too narrow and shallow to let in a northward current...
...resident of Martha's Vineyard who has compiled a book on the area's tides. But the Star did have the Oct. 24 photo. The newspaper's editors decided not to publish it because it was taken from an oblique angle and did not show the channel clearly enough -though it demonstrates that the channel had not narrowed since May, despite the Star's assertion to the contrary...
...them on deadly undercover missions to Kabul. Complains the Pakistani director of the Commission for Afghan Refugees: "Everyone claims to be in control but there is no authority-only personal enmities." Obviously the formlessness of the rebel organization also makes it difficult for potential backers to know where to channel their assistance...