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Vigorous Security. The general consensus within industry and government is that to pay an extortionist's demands simply invites more attempts. But with a fleet of 239 planes and a daily passenger load of about 30,000 at this time of year, TWA may have felt that it had to make an attempt to deal with Gomez. A private plane, perhaps containing the $2,000,000, flew from New York to Atlanta. It returned to New York four hours later, and a nervous TWA spokesman subsequently said that Gomez had not been heard from again by week...
Beneath a midnight Mediterranean sky, French customs agents last week approached the shrimp boat Caprice des Temps (Whim of Time) off the Riviera coast. The owner, a 58-year-old fishing-fleet operator named Marcel Boucan, refused to answer a radio order to cut his engines, so the agents fired shots across the vessel's bow and boarded it. Boucan frantically threw mysterious papers overboard and, while being taken back to port, slipped over the side. The next morning he was recaptured, exhausted, near the walls of Marseille's harbor fortress...
...forcing his executive officer to procure signatures of other officers on a false combat report recommending him for a Silver Star. With that report, two junior officers file a second report outlining Arnheiter's three-month reign on the Vance; after several days of intense study, the Pacific fleet commander relieves Arnheiter pending on investigation. After dismissal at a Navy hearing. Arnheiter takes his appeal to Washington, where Sheehan first encounters him. Here is where Sheehan begins his book, subtly tying each new detail into a larger pattern which leads to the inescapable conclusion that the Navy did only what...
...Athens. Meanwhile, he maneuvered for help. Both the Soviet and Polish press criticized the idea of outside forces interfering with the internal decisions of Cyprus. Moscow apparently connects the Cyprus crisis with a recent agreement between the U.S. and Greece that allows dependents of men serving with the Sixth Fleet to be based around Athens. Moscow fears that Greece and Turkey might amalgamate sections of the island directly into their two nations. In that case, Cyprus could become an extension of NATO and another possible shelter for the U.S. fleet...
...white man's burden, but some vestigial splendor remained as Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip and Princess Anne began their five-week tour of Southeast Asia with a five-day state visit to Thailand. Prince Philip -uniformed as an Admiral of the Fleet-commanded the royal launch as it left the royal yacht and swooshed up to Bangkok's royal pier, where the English royals were greeted by the Thai royals, King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit. Then there was a ride in the royal Daimler through cheering throngs, a walk over a flower-strewn path...