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...gang of men, dodging around cars and trees as they fired guns at one another on a sunny, suburban Miami street. But the scene was all too real, a bloody shootout between seven FBI agents and the two robbery suspects they had cornered. In the end, two lawmen lay dead--the 28th and 29th agents killed in the line of duty in the FBI's 78-year history. The suspects, William Matix, 34, and Michael Platt, 32, were also slain. As investigators last week traced the paths that Matix and Platt followed to their deaths, a strange story unfolded...
Hurtling along near the speed of sound in dead of night, at times under intense antiaircraft fire, how could pilots of the F-111 fighter bombers plant so many of their bombs on or near targets as small and discrete as a single building or a row of planes? By high-tech wizardry that makes a real-life bombing run seem almost as simple as a video game...
Some Pentagon officials theorize that the bomb may have been dropped by an attacker that was out of control. Three Navy pilots reported seeing one aircraft turn into a "fireball" and disappear into the ocean about ten miles offshore. The missing crewmen, who were presumed dead after a search yielded no signs of life, were Captain Fernando L. Ribas-Dominicci, 33, of Puerto Rico and Captain Paul F. Lorence, 31, of San Francisco...
...terrorism. The planning for an air strike that would ultimately engage 150 warplanes and drop some 60 tons of bombs on Libya was intricate and constrained by a host of political and diplomatic as well as military considerations. It required U.S. airmen to fly through heavy flak in the dead of night and strike with flawless precision. The primary target: Colonel Gaddafi's headquarters. The unstated hope: that the Libyan leader would be asleep there when the bombs fell...
Charlie Nicklaus has been dead for 16 years, but Charlie's stamp on Jack is visible yet. If Scioto Pro Jack Grout taught Nicklaus how to play, and Nicklaus taught himself how to win, Charlie taught Jack how to lose. Since his unexpected fourth U.S. Open and fifth P.G.A. victories at the age of 40, Nicklaus has spent six mostly twilit years displaying an unerring grace (everywhere but on the greens) that brought him to the last round of his 28th Masters four strokes and eight players behind...