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Reagan was to return to Washington on today, with only a refueling stop in Anchorage, Alaska, concluding the more than 22,000-mile, 13-day Far Eastern tour, the longest out-of-town trip of his more than five-year presidency...
Gwinn said that before the group's pioneering work scientists had not formally determined the distance which separated celestial bodies. He called the scientific community's conception of the Milky Way "maps without inch-to-mile scales...
...government classifies Terzi as an excludable alien, which allows him to travel outside a 25-mile radius New York only with special permission. Terzi has been allowed to travel to Massachusetts to vacation, but never to speak publicly...
...English bases, Canada and Israel. All the others at minimum counseled against a raid; France and Spain went further, vexing U.S. opinion by refusing to let the F-111s fly over their territory. That forced the bombers to take a circuitous route that added 2,400 nautical miles to their 5,600-mile round trip...
Several minutes into the attack, two things went tragically wrong, possibly in connection with each other. One of the F-111s dropped its bombs in a residential area a mile south of the harbor, killing several civilians, destroying homes and damaging other buildings, including the French embassy and the Swiss Ambassador's residence. It seems highly coincidental, to say the least, that the bomb exploded only a few blocks from Libya's internal- security headquarters, reputedly a onetime haunt of the notorious terrorist Abu Nidal. U.S. officials insist, however, that the security facility was not a U.S. target...