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...collapsed into mud, trapping a 700-passenger train between them. At Vina del Mar, seaside playground of rich Chileans, boiling waves hurled huge boulders from the seawall into the streets. Farther south near Valdivia, the naval ocean-going tug Janequeo was dashed against rocks and sank; 43 of 72 crewmen died...
...wind hit you in the face." No smoke or noise carried to the surface. When Aincham raced out, a worker topside asked: "Is something wrong?" The only outside warning of the disaster came from instruments in an underground command post 220 ft. away, where four Air Force crewmen immediately donned masked survival suits and ran out to investigate...
...Coast Guard search of the Straits found nothing. Then, just after midnight three days after the shooting, a ship bound for Europe picked up a Cuban in a dinghy 60 miles south of Miami. In the dinghy, crewmen found a bag of clothes, a pistol and ammunition...
...Clauses. The three striking unions-out of eight in all-want multiple benefits, including a change in vacations and the right of captains to continue belonging to unions. Involved in a jealous rivalry with each other-six unions sometimes represent various crewmen of a single ship-they also insist on me-too reopening clauses in order to renegotiate for raises or crew increases that have been conceded to other unions. The biggest current issue is the number of crewmen who will henceforth man automated ships. The U.S. now has eleven mechanized freighters, and many more are planned; they require...
...process, he has rescued 800 wounded soldiers and carted home more corpses than he cares to remember. To help counter the pervasive stench of death and mutilation, MEDEVAC pilots and crewmen stuff their nostrils with Vicks VapoRub. And they are curiously unwilling to make friends with infantrymen. "You don't want to get too close to people when you know tomorrow they may be dead," Bloomquist explains. "There's no place for sentiment in this business...