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Phase 2, never carried out, called for the C-130s to fly to Oman and the helicopters to ferry the commandos to a mountain hideout some 100 miles from Tehran. The raiding party would stay in hiding there throughout the next day. As darkness fell, the men would climb aboard trucks and buses, which would have been supplied by an undisclosed number of CIA agents and U.S. Special Forces men who had entered Iran earlier, some disguised as European businessmen...
...flight crashed near Lisbon. Her marriage to the pilot who saved her life had a fairy-tale flavor, and the optimism she maintained through more than 30 operations on her crippled legs touched millions, especially when she sang such sentimental favorites as I'll Walk Alone and Climb Ev'ry Mountain...
These trends are troublesome but not critical. It is anticipated that unemployment this year will climb only fractionally, to not much more than 2% of the labor force. Though Westerners might well find the consensus system stifling, opinion polls show that most Japanese are satisfied with their lot. Altogether, Japan continues to do much better than most of the rest of the world, capitalist...
...defer to other writers like H.G. Wells, Henry James, and Theodore Dreiser, who said Maugham was "a great artist" and Of Human Bondage a work of genius. Morgan also cites critics like Malcolm Cowley, who thought Of Human Bondage Maugham's greatest work, and asked, "Why did he never climb back to the same level...
...rocket-firing helicopters. The exodus of 6,000 refugees from Kunar into Pakistan has left the area between the border and the river eerily quiet. But the hills have not been abandoned. No mountain is without its militia. After escorting their women into Pakistan, most men return, climb a few thousand feet higher and join one of the scattered rebel packs...