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...Last month, for instance, 20 activists braved the rain to attend a showing at the Bethel Full Gospel Church in Rochester, New York, and that was just one of 12 downlink sites in what is supposed to be a liberal state. The meeting began when the county chairman, Tom Jessop, bowed his head and said, "Let's come together in prayer." But he moved quickly to such topics as how to become a Republican committeeman and how to "blitz E-mail." Indeed, the group was nothing like the Coalition members uncharitably described by the Washington Post in February...
...terrorist bomb. According to accounts in the British press, Pierce has suggested a similar approach for the Titanic. But raising the 418-ton Greenpeace ship from a shallow harbor is one thing, rescuing the 46,328-ton Titanic from 2 1/2 miles of ocean quite another. Says Keith Jessop, the Yorkshire diver who in 1981 salvaged $80 million in gold bullion from the World War II battleship H.M.S. Edinburgh: "You can't even speak of them in the same breath...
...trouble in the plane's left engine. At about the same moment, an explosion resounded throughout the airport. "It was like a dull thud," said Neal Andrews, 38, a cab-driver who was waiting in the airport's taxi line. "I thought it was a tire blowing out," Sharon Jessop, 18, a student from Manchester, recalled nine hours after her harrowing escape from the wreckage...
Inside the plane, passengers in the front section were still unaware of the gravity of their situation. Student Jessop, looking out of a window, saw "an orange glow" and thought it was the sun. A moment later, Terrington instructed passengers to remain in their seats. But before the pilot, co-pilot and four flight attendants could begin to evacuate the plane, choking smoke, billowing up from the back of the aircraft, enveloped the cabin. Passengers in the rear section are believed to have been overcome immediately by smoke and the toxic fumes that result when polyurethane seat coverings, acrylic carpeting...
...front of the cabin, pandemonium erupted. "One minute I was picking up my bag, getting ready to go," Jessop remembered. "The next minute I could not see my hand in front of my face, and I was screaming for my life." Terrified passengers piled into the aisles and began clawing their way toward the plane's exits. When people discovered that the door over the left wing was blocked by flames, the chaos grew. "People were just on top of each other trying to get out," Mike Mather, 21, of Norwich, said...