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...Flak-jacketed soldiers and carabinieri surrounded the hotels that housed the visiting heads of state, including the luxurious Hotel Cipriani, where the Carters stayed in a three-room suite. Nearby canals were closed to gondolas, and frogmen periodically searched the murky waters for mines and bombs. Plainclothesmen, including the U.S. Secret Service, mingled with tourists. For security reasons the Carters' hostess, Danielle Gardner, wife of U.S. Ambassador Richard Gardner, was forbidden to take Rosalynn and Amy to many landmarks, including Murano island, which is headquarters for the city's famed glassblowers. But Rosalynn and Amy were scheduled...
...June issue, cover dominated by a man in a white jumpsuit and a yellow hard hat cradling a machine gun, features research pieces on dozens of new lightweight automatic rifles, and articles sporting titles like "Death in the Delta." The letters columns ("Flak" and "Cuss and Discuss") carry wide-ranging opinions on men and munitions. Larry Loper, of Sugar Land, Texas, contributed the following to one discussion of the relative merits of 45s vs 9 mm ammunition. "Let's try an experiment," Loper suggests. "Lie flat on your back on a bench or table. Have a friend--or enemy--take...
Investigators suspect that the overheating in the first craft resulted from a cooling vent having been blocked by a crewman's flak jacket and bag. If so, that obviously was human error. The swirling sand, investigators say, could not have cracked the rotor blade in the second craft. The cause may never be known. The failure of the third chopper's pump also is a mystery and presumably could not have been caused by sand because the helicopters' hydraulic systems are well sealed...
...adviser. Her forte is the daring act. After Lord Mountbatten's assassination last August, for example, she rejected the advice of some cautious Cabinet ministers and visited British troops in the heart of I.R.A. terrorist country in Northern Ireland. Pictures of a windblown Maggie in an oversized flak jacket were visual evidence that she would not give in to the gunmen either...
Graham, who ran on the CCA slate for city council last November, "received a lot of flak" for filing the bill, one CCA member said. Another said the bill was rerouted to the Ways and Means Committee as the result of "an amicable decision-making process...