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...Annapolis. He became a pilot and won a chestful of medals during the Viet Nam War. Smith flew 225 combat missions but was never injured, even though his plane was hit by ground fire several times. He later became a test pilot-instructor, did two carrier tours in the Mediterranean and in 1980 was picked for the space program...
...argument to final verdict, the espionage trial was the longest in British history. From the viewpoint of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government, it was also a disaster. After more than a week of deliberation, a London jury last week acquitted two British servicemen accused of leading a Mediterranean spy operation that supposedly passed British and NATO military secrets to the Soviet Union. A week earlier, the same jury had acquitted five others charged with membership in the same purported ring. Both times, the panel spurned a prosecution case based largely on confessions that were, according to the defense...
...bold midair interception of the four Palestinian hijackers of the Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro. In Boise, admiring supporters erupted in cheers as Reagan declared he was "most proud" of the U.S. Navy F-14 pilots who were able to pinpoint their EgyptAir Boeing 737 target in the Mediterranean darkness and, as he put it puckishly, "persuade" it to land in Italy. His declaration that "there is a new patriotism alive in our country" reflected the widespread joy felt by the American public at finally getting a chance to strike back against terrorism. When reporters asked whether...
...reappear now and then. It was not as if the U.S. had turned Rambo loose upon the Palestine Liberation Front. Did Arafat accuse the Soviets of "cowboy logic"--or "Cossack logic"--when they shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007 with 269 people aboard? The Americans over the Mediterranean were Sisters of Mercy by comparison. They accomplished a bloodless citizen's arrest of terrorists at 34,000 ft. Cowboy logic? One imagines Reagan crinkling a little and replying, "Smile when you say that...
...time the Italian liner Achille Lauro had reached Alexandria, on the fifth day of a Mediterranean cruise, its 755 passengers had settled into the pleasant routine of shipboard life. There were Ping Pong tournaments, shuffleboard games and lazy afternoons around the pool. In the evening there were dinner and dancing followed by midnight buffets, and every night a troupe of Polish dancers put on a ballet performance...