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...individual Americans and Frenchmen, partly because the terrorists are finding it increasingly difficult to penetrate the military bases and thus are turning their guns on relatively unprotected civilian targets. Two weeks ago gunmen on a motorbike shot and slightly wounded the wife of a French diplomat in broad daylight. As usual, the terrorists escaped...
...planes flew at a relatively high 20,000 feet before diving for the attack, they were easier targets than if they had flown the entire mission at low altitudes, as the Israelis often do. On the contrary, said a high-ranking admiral, "if you come in low in daylight, you expose yourself to everyone with...
their targets only in daylight. In spite of that, the attack was launched before an early-morning haze masking the Syrian positions had lifted...
...Suarez of the L.A.P.D.'s gang squad, "because a lot of them never come forward." The gangs consider it a matter of honor to go after any witnesses if one of their members is arrested. As a result, says Suarez, "we may have a murder committed in broad daylight in front of 20 people, and suddenly those 20 people go blind...
...from inside the station wagon in that parking lot. We had painted exactly two rod H's--small ones, at that--on a door to a big building that looked like it must have been Yale's. When we drove past it a few hours later in the daylight, it looked more like a church. Those two H's were enough to scare us into rushing back to the car to wait for the others...