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...stereo delivery men, who claimed to hail from Montreal, said they didn't know who had sent them to Cambridge. They said the benefactor had paid cash for the six-piece system, which included a direct-drive turntable, a Dolby cassette deck, a graphic equalizer, an AM-FM receiver and two 80-watt speakers...
...fresh questions about, what really happened during the six-day crisis. From the returning passengers and crew came a vivid account of the horror aboard the Italian cruise ship. Marilyn Klinghoffer, 59, returning home to New York City, recalled the anxious hours she spent on an upper deck with machine guns pointed at her head. The hijackers, she recounted, "kept popping their guns and playing with grenades on their belts, like little kids." Falsely told by the terrorists that her husband was in the ship's infirmary, she tried to sneak there for a visit, but was stopped. Only after...
Joaquim Pineiro Da Silva, 27, a Portuguese cabin steward, learned of the slaying after one of the terrorists entered the ship's main lounge and motioned to him and Ferruccio Alberti, the cruise hairdresser. The two men were led to the upper deck, where they found Klinghoffer's body lying facedown in a pool of blood beside his overturned wheelchair. The terrorist gestured that they were to toss both the body and the wheelchair overboard. After hearing the body splash in the waters below, neither man looked over the rail. "I wanted to break into tears, but was unable...
...range missiles, most notably the triple-warhead SS-20, even though they could wipe out Western Europe. By adding up virtually all "forward-based" U.S. nuclear weapons while at the same time refusing to count Soviet weapons capable of hitting Europe or Asia, the Soviets would be stacking the deck against the U.S. before cutting it (see chart...
...ticked off information about bearing and depth, the captain verified each reading and repeated in a low but firm voice, "I agree." Then, checking a console screen to his left that showed the status of his 24 weapons, he ordered, "Make missiles ready." In the missile control center one deck below, Weapons Officer Lieut. John Hardenbergh worked at two other consoles that control the silos and the firing of the missiles. Both men have metal keys, each of which must be turned in their console before ignition can occur...