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...surrounded by the forces of the mightiest nation on earth, the ambassador decided to abandon his ramshackle redoubt deep in a lower ventricle of Texas. He had sent out a "Mayday" on shortwave radio, calling on "any nation in the world" for assistance. "We have hostiles in the woods," he cried. "We are being invaded!" But no one came to his aid, and his supporters were beginning to trickle away. Even the ambassador's wife had decided to leave the combination lean-to and trailer that was designated the "embassy compound." Thus, shortly after 4 p.m. on Saturday, with barely...
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...first vessel on the scene, "we could see people floating about in the water and hear them screaming for help." The Mariella managed to rescue 17. "There were hundreds of bodies bobbing up and down," said Hemming Eriksson, a passenger on a second ferry that responded to the postmidnight mayday message. "Many were dressed only in underwear and life jackets. Some of them moved, so you could see they were living, but we could not get them up in the heavy sea." Between 4 a.m. and 3 p.m., 21 rescue helicopters pulled people from heaving life rafts. Briton Paul Barney...
...killed all 44 people aboard a Royal Air Maroc passenger flight concluded that the accident was intentionally caused by the pilot as he committed suicide. Transport Ministry officials said the pilot disconnected the automatic controls and pushed the aircraft into a dive while his female co-pilot screamed out Mayday signals over the radio. But the Moroccan Pilot's Union contested the suicide finding, saying that the pilot was a cheerful, well-balanced man and there was evidence of technical failure...