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...managed at least to knock down an Israeli Pharitom, the first confirmed loss of one of the U.S.-built fighter-bombers since they went into action. In a triumphant mood, the Syrians promoted the MIG pilot who had downed the Phantom plane. A Syrian farmer who captured the two crewmen after they bailed out was presented with $125 in cash and a new pistol by Syria's strongman, General Hafez Assad...
Lucky Castoffs. Two lifeboats were launched and 24 crewmen tumbled into them. Only one boat had a functioning motor, so a line was passed to the other, and they pulled off a safe distance, about a mile from the ship. Inexplicably, no other boats joined them, which meant that 15 men were still aboard, including Captain Donald Swann. An hour passed. Then the astonished men in the lifeboats saw smoke belch from the Eagle's stack, and the freighter took off at its top speed of about 19 knots. Some thought it had to be a bad joke. Only...
Interviewed by Keyes Beech of the Chicago Daily News, the rescued crewmen on the Rappahannock hooted at reports that McKay and Glatkowski might have acted out of political motives. One said that neither of them could tell "Marx from Lenin." The majority opinion was that both were high on pot, as they had been all through the voyage...
...gray February day two years ago, Charles de Gaulle journeyed to Toulon to deliver a speech and attend a memorial Mass honoring 52 naval crewmen who had disappeared along with their ship, the 850-ton submarine Minerve. To the navy's surprise, the President suggested taking a brief dive himself in one of the doomed submarine's sister ships, the Eurydice. The general's ride, to a depth of 130 feet, was a gallant gesture of confidence in the submarines of the Daphné class, to which the Minerve and the Eurydice belonged...
...bore the name Eurydice. In the loss of the Minerve, authorities had held out hope for four days because the crew had an air supply of 100 hours. In last week's tragedy, they were forced to tell families and relatives immediately that the Eurydice's 56 crewmen, as well as a visiting Pakistani naval officer, were lost beyond doubt...