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They seemed more like a comedy troupe than a police squad. Ten minutes after we'd scarfed down our dinner, however, reality struck...literally. Carnell and his partner had been broadsided in an intesection and rescue workers were cutting them out of their cruiser. They were later treated at a local hospital and released late in the evening, too late to get back on to the five-midnight shift...
...mother. Still in curlers and carrying a forgotten hot fudge sundae, she approached the two officers, wailing. "Please tell me it ain't him, please tell me it ain't him," again and again at the top of her lungs. Gently putting her sundae on the trunk of the cruiser, O'Hara led her away, quietly trying to console...
...late last week. In separate incidents, two British citizens had been abducted earlier. Four other Americans seized by militants over the past year have yet to be released. Still in the country are an estimated 1,400 Americans. The U.S. aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower and the guided- missile cruiser Mississippi were standing by off the Lebanese coast, prepared to carry out a larger evacuation. Observed a Western diplomat in Beirut: "We are moving into dangerous, uncharted areas. The violence is spiraling out of control...
...Ministry of Defense, was acquitted of violating the Official Secrets Act by a jury that had been virtually instructed by the trial judge to deliver a guilty verdict. Ponting was charged with giving a Labor Party Member of Parliament classified documents about the sinking of the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano by a Royal Navy submarine during the 1982 Falklands war. More than 360 Argentine sailors perished in the attack. The documents contradicted the account of the Belgrano episode given at the time to Parliament by members of the Thatcher government. The material indicated, among other things, that the Belgrano...
Although her government recaptured the offensive last week in a nasty parliamentary squabble over the sinking of the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano during the 1982 Falklands war, questions linger about the timing and motives behind the attack. The latest survey by Britain's respected MORI poll puts the Labor Party even with the Conservatives at 37%, the Tories' lowest ebb in three years...