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...enlisted in the Navy in the summer of 1942 but flunked the physical because his brilliant blue eyes turned out to be colorblind. He ended up in the Air Corps and spent most of the next three years as a radioman in torpedo planes and in submarine patrols off Guam, Hawaii and Saipan. He saw no serious combat. He says, "I got through the whole war on two razor blades...
...earth's rotation. But before Telesat's Anik 3-C reached its resting place over the Pacific, controllers discovered that they were unable to "talk" to the satellite on any of the programmed frequencies. The radio silence perplexed and panicked Telesat's control room on Guam. Unless Anik (Inuit for brother) accepted their commands, the controllers could not angle it properly toward the sun or keep it locked in place. Thus its critical maneuvering propellants would quickly freeze. Without this fuel, the $24 million bird would be a dead duck...
Some waded ashore through waist-deep Mediterranean waters, their M-16 automatic rifles held high over their heads. Others arrived in amphibious assault vehicles that splashed up on the beach and rumbled toward the airport. Still others clambered out of hovering Chinooks and Sea Stallions from the aircraft carrier Guam, anchored some two miles offshore. The U.S. Marines were back in Lebanon last week, 1,200 strong, only 19 days after leaving that embattled country following the evacuation of some 11,000 Palestine Liberation Organization guerrillas from West Beirut. The latest mission of the Leathernecks', as well...
...catch to date suggests what is at stake. Indictments for food-stamp fraud last year totaled 799, nearly double the number in 1980; the tally this year, involving 40 states, Guam and Puerto Rico, has already topped 800. In the largest theft uncovered so far, four employees of the Government Development Bank in Puerto Rico stole $100,000 worth of stamps a day for four years, for a total take of $100 million. They were finally caught last May by Agriculture Department agents...
...catered, Manning claims, was coming out of Shanghai after President Nixon's 1972 visit to China. That historic trip had been a seemingly endless sequence of banquets with Chinese delicacies: shark's fin, goldfish in white sauce. The return to the U.S., arranged by flight crews from Guam, was fueled by McDonald's burgers, French fries and milkshakes...