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...typically chilling passage is about his return to Russia aboard a Soviet freighter with a human cargo of condemned men who know that homecoming means an executioner's bullet. En route, these compromised trade representatives and diplomats "rarely slept, greedy for their remaining hours of introspection, pacing about the deck when they could stand the cold...
...only inside account of the evening came from the other woman who went home with the Kennedys that night: Michele Cassone, a waitress. In one version, she says she, Patrick and the Senator sat and talked on the deck outside for a while. Later in the morning when she was alone with Patrick, the Senator walked into the room. "He was dressed in just an Oxford shirt as far as I could tell," Cassone recalls. "I couldn't see if he had shorts or what underneath, and I got nervous and decided to leave." Cassone says the investigator hired...
Pilots flying off the Ranger were so eager to refuel and get back into the air to kill more tanks that they had their planes loaded with whatever bombs or missiles happened to be available on the flight deck, rather than waiting for the ship's slow elevators to bring up ordnance specifically chosen for their mission. Pilot after pilot described attacks in which, after the first tank in a column was hit, the crews would abandon the others and set out on foot for home. Correspondents touring the road at week's end found mile after mile of blasted...
...tedium of endless nights under flimsy tents. Thompson thought about that after he drove through a military checkpoint manned by a young British soldier. The soldier's expression, menacing at first, gave way to a huge smile when he recognized a Phil Collins song playing on Thompson's tape deck. "There was this important, shared touch of home that's rare here," Thompson wrote. "I drove away and started crying. I thought, this kid, who should be home raising hell with his friends, could soon be in the middle of great violence...
BATTLEFIELD HISTORIANS. Military History Detachments from all the services have been sent to the gulf to collect and preserve maps and other documents that will eventually become the official history of Desert Shield for the National Archives. Also on deck: service members with artistic talent to do sketches documenting troop life in the sand...