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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone: While Sierra Leone's capital continues to degenerate into a free-for-all among looters, mutinous soldiers and terrified locals, foreigners in the city are getting out. Shuttling furiously between a Freetown harbor hotel and the USS Kearsarge waiting 20 miles off the coast, U.S. Marine helicopters evacuated 843 foreigners, among them some 300 Americans, in batches of up to 55 while Nigerian peacekeeping troops stood guard at the hotel entrance. The U.S. Embassy has already shut down its operations in the capital. Embassy staff were headed for Conakry, the capital of neighboring Guinea, said embassy spokeswoman...
...American patriots dump tea in Boston Harbor...
This--a pair of parentheses--to mark the single greatest crusade in American history? To commemorate the largest naval battle ever (Leyte Gulf), the largest amphibious landing ever (Normandy)? To mark the most shocking attack on (Pearl Harbor) and the most shocking attack by (Hiroshima) the U.S.? To memorialize what was not just America's finest hour but, in many ways, America's most important hour, an event whose revolutionary effect on American life and society, on everything from atomic science and aviation to race relations and gender roles, is acutely felt to this...
Spring Break '98, '99 and the rest of Spring Breaks from here to eternity will be--a home for the id to run wild; the Bahamas and Cancum are places where you can't get caught and thus "anything goes"; these typical MTV Spring Break-havens harbor and nurse the college id until it is full with who knows whose milk...
...attack. They looted the bank and warehouses and raided army depots abandoned by unhappy and undisciplined soldiers. It seems that every man in town has an AK-47 and fires it with abandon. At nightfall the constant crack of machine guns and the booming of explosives tossed into the harbor are deafening. Since last week 20 people have been killed and more than 100 wounded by gunfire, and a nurse at the Vlora hospital says perhaps half of the shootings are accidental...