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...gray plane with a large red dot on the fuselage fly past, and a corpsman shouted, "The Japs are bombing us!" A bomb hit the destroyer Shaw in dry dock, and the concussion broke windowpanes in the hospital and blew our clothes and hair as if we were in a tornado...
...indictment with extorting money and services in exchange for official favors. Federal prosecutors claim that he tapped developers, architects and unions. His most serious offense was an alleged demand of $35,000 from David Paul, former chairman of CenTrust Savings Bank, in return for approval to build a private dock at Paul's home on La Gorce Island. Daoud, who professes his innocence, is the third mayor in Dade County to be indicted or convicted for corruption in two years. Although he already planned to step down later this month, Daoud was immediately suspended from office by Governor Lawton Chiles...
...good. More than 500 workers -- mostly waitresses, croupiers and maintenance staff -- were employed for Emerald Lady's launching, and Fort Madison has benefited from the 40% rise in tourist information requests statewide. Local officials trust that their investment will be covered by the ship's dock fees, a 0.5% tax on gross gambling receipts and a 50 cents charge the town levies on each passenger. "The boat is breathing new life and enthusiasm into the town," says Father Robert McAleer of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church. "There's exuberance over something...
...serve its research laboratories, the EQRF will feature a variety of floor layouts, including open laboratories as well as central work spaces. An animal facility will be located in the basement for investigators with rodents protected from biological contamination. A truck dock, central receiving area and mail room will also be located in the basement...
Those in the dock were not the only ones squirming through the kangaroo sessions. The Bush Administration was chafing too, embarrassed by the brutish behavior of a regime that it had risked so much to restore to power. Embracing a government as undemocratic as Kuwait's was awkward from the outset, but expectations were high that the liberated country would march briskly toward liberalization. Instead, the ruling band of brothers and cousins that runs the country seems to have settled comfortably into its old habits...