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Ever since militant members of the Irish Republican Army began exporting their campaign of violence from Ulster to Britain, Scotland Yard has suspected they were smuggling in explosives and weapons aboard an unlikely gunrunner: the 1,800-passenger liner Queen Elizabeth 2. In 1972 two of the vessel's kitchen porters were charged with possession of rifles and hand grenades on board, following one of the ship's stopovers in New York. An I.R.A. bomb factory was discovered last December in Southampton, the liner's home port, which has long been a center of I.R.A. activity...
Some 100 cops and customs officials also swarmed on board the luxury liner, which was in berth undergoing some repairs prior to a Caribbean cruise, and began a stem-to-stern search for more explosives. They forced open crew members' lockers and sampled the air from dozens of compartments with a sophisticated explosive detector known as a "gas chromatography" machine. The QE 2 was clea−her 1,176 closely searched passengers left on schedule Thursday for their holiday−but Scotland Yard's bomb squad will clearly continue monitoring her comings and goings with considerably more than...
Bullard drilled a shot just wide, Acorn had an apparently sure goal deflected by the goalie, and George Grassby kicked a liner only inches over the crossbar...
...black holes. Still, the obscure research associate is moving up in the organization. Two years ago, his office was in the third basement of a Caltech physics building, but he has since been elevated to the subbasement. Kowal is not particularly impressed. "This building is like an ocean liner," he says wryly. "All the professors are up there on the promenade deck promenading. This is the engine room where all the work gets done...
...only scare came in the closing minutes of the game when the Big Green offense swarmed around the Harvard goalmouth. One Dartmouth head shot bounced over the goal and only moments later a rising liner missed the post by inches...