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...atmosphere in the Pretoria courtroom last week was hardly serious. The five defendants, decked out in colorful beach shirts and khakis, smiled and waved to security policemen as they appeared briefly in the dock to be freed on bail. They had good reason to be happy. Despite international anger, the South African government opted to deal lightly, almost casually, with their crime: the hijacking of an Air India jetliner the previous week, after an abortive attempt to overthrow the socialist government of Seychelles...
...Tuesday morning, all federal employees were back at work. The bureaucrats who pay them computed that it would cost more to dock furloughed employees' pay than it would to meet their normal salaries. It was not clear what the fiasco had cost Congress in terms of its already low public esteem. The President's relations with Capitol Hill leaders, whom he had courted so effectively in the past with a soft sell, were surely damaged...
...heady peacetime years, the Normandie was the most magnificent ship afloat. The dining room, it was boasted, was longer and more lustrous than the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles. But when the French liner burned and capsized at its Manhattan dock in 1942, it was not so much its beauty that was mourned as the loss of one of the fastest passenger ships ever built, then being refitted as an Allied troop transport that could outrun any U-boat. In Normandie Triangle (Arbor House; 475 pages; $13.95), Novelist Justin Scott evokes the grace and power of the great ship even...
Arthur Hollingsworth, seven-man on the heavyweight first boat, said his crew was well prepared for the Charles' chill winds, which were especially severe while the crews were waiting to dock. "The two-man carried a flask of brandy in his pocket--that warmed us up in no time," he added...
...back their jewels from the insurers. Even if sued, Gimbel could still get up to 50% of the salvage, depending on the courts. He will have to pay import duties on everything except currency and antiques. "This was not a treasure hunt," insists Gimbel, who was welcomed at the dock by U.S. Customs agents. Will he go down to the Andrea Doria again? No, says he. "I think it is time to stop testing myself...