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Japanese Lieut. Fusata Iida turned to strafe Sands, but the sailor fired another BAR clip, then ducked the bullets that pocked the armory's wall. As Iida's Zero climbed again, gasoline began streaming from his fuel tank. Before takeoff, Iida had said that any pilot whose engine failed should crash his plane into the enemy, so now he turned for a last attack. For one incredible minute, the two enemies faced and fired at each other, Iida from his crippled Zero, Sands with his BAR. Then the Zero nosed into a highway and smashed into pieces...
...said, "I want one that's going to hit every time. How does it work?" When the salesman learned that I had never used a pistol before, he recommended that I get training from a professional at a practice range. I asked about the parts of the gun: the clip, the bullets, where everything fit. The gun holds a total of 17 bullets, and a spare clip is included...
...ready to face down troops with a single banner: SOLDIERS: DON'T SHOOT MOTHERS AND SISTERS. Clearly the soldiers had orders not to use force. One of a dozen soldiers who marched to the central telegraph office on Tverskaya Street, when confronted by outraged Muscovites, showed them that the clip of his automatic weapon was empty. When the tanks did move, people were ready with gasoline-filled bottles (named, of course, after the old Stalinist V.M. Molotov). Tank drivers, even paratroop commanders, defected to the resistance. Miners went on strike...
...radio and TV airwaves were suddenly alive with Pee-wee jokes (His favorite baseball team? The Montreal Expos. His next television project? A remake of Diff'rent Strokes). CBS yanked the five remaining repeat episodes of Pee-wee's Playhouse, and the Disney-MGM Studios pulled a two- minute clip including Pee-wee that was being shown during backstage tours of its theme park in Orlando...
...performance as one of their best bets for keeping jobs in the U.S. Despite a decade of restructuring, many companies remain desperate to slash payrolls further and get more bang for their labor bucks. "People are beginning to understand that the world is moving ahead at a fast clip and that global competition is so fierce that the future of American manufacturing industries is at stake," says Lawrence Bankowski, the Ohio-based president of the American Flint Glass Workers Union, which has lost nearly half its 36,000 members during the past 15 years. Concurs Mike Rohret, a human-resources...