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...keys to success for this lough old-style romance are the two relationships pulling Mayo apart with the strength of plow horses. The son of a drunken sailor, he enlists in the Port Ranter Naval Aviation Office Candidate School to learn to fly jets. There he crashes into Foley, whom I ours Gosset Jr. masterfully molds into a merciless embodiment of martial discipline. There is no heart of gold beneath Foley's taut Black skin: the scorn he displays for his charges on the first day of their 13-week baste training stint changes only to bitter, unstated resentment...
...that goes with it. But after his squad beat Army 9-0 late in December, Harvard coach Dave Fish felt confident enough to claim that after looking up at Princeton all season. "We can now look them eye-to-eye." Army coach Paul Assaiante echoed Fish: "Princeton's pretty lough, but on racket skills, Harvard's probably better...
...hatred in their hearts, they show a will to survive, and they are exceptionally gentle with grownups and with one another. This seems especially remarkable when one considers the dark, moaning city of their home?the once clanging port that made great ships and sailed them down the Belfast Lough for the world to see. It is now shut tight like a corpse's mouth, its brown terrace houses strung out like teeth full of cavities, gaps and wires...
...bloodshed had only begun. Late that same afternoon a three-vehicle convoy of British soldiers moved along a highway just inside the Ulster border. On the one side was Narrow Water, a peaceful estuary of Carlingford Lough; on the other a golf course. When the convoy passed a trailerload of hay parked beside the road, a huge bomb exploded, blasting a three-ton army truck across the highway and spewing wreckage and human bodies into the air. Surviving paratroopers radioed for help, and a contingent of the Queen's Own Highlanders, including its commanding officer, Lieut. Colonel David Blair...
...from some fictional war film," reported TIME'S Ed Curran from Belfast. "Everywhere in the debris was blood and human flesh. Overhead the late afternoon sky was obscured by dense smoke rising from the wreckage. The soldiers who had survived staggered around and some opened fire across the Lough at two young men whom they apparently took to be the bombers. The tragedy of Narrow Water was now complete. The two were merely gawking at what had happened. One was shot in the arm; the other was killed. In addition, 18 soldiers, including Blair, had died -the largest number...