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...they struck at nine homes and an office, ripping through doors and windows with automatic-rifle fire and hand grenades. Their targets: members of the African National Congress, the main guerrilla organization opposed to South Africa's policy of apartheid. According to the South Africans, the 35- min. attack left 13 ANC guerrillas dead. At least two other people also died, according to authorities in Botswana, including a six-year-old girl and a Dutch social worker...
...worst in Philadelphia's history, was simply the result of an accident, not bad judgment. According to the mayor, Police Commissioner Gregore J. Sambor and Managing Director Leo A. Brooks decided at the site of the action to use the explosive device, then obtained his approval some 20 min. before the drop. The mayor waved aside criticism as mere "second- guessing" and declared that, facing the same situation, he would make the same decision "again and again and again." Yet postmortems turned up reasons to wonder whether the drop-a-bomb decision had been thoughtfully made...
Around daybreak Monday, Police Commissioner Sambor deployed 150 men, including sharpshooters, bomb specialists and SWAT teams. At 5:35 a.m., Sambor roared through a bullhorn that he held arrest warrants for occupants of the house: they were given 15 min. to come out. When the deadline passed with no response but scornful taunts, police lobbed tear-gas canisters at the building and the fire department battered the roof of the house with two water cannons. A burst of gunfire came from the house, touching off a return fusillade of thousands of rounds from police lasting 90 min...
More than anything else, the late Howard Hughes loved airplanes. In 1932 he founded Hughes Aircraft, which manufactured the Winged Bullet that Hughes piloted to a U.S. transcontinental speed record of 7 hr. 28 min. at an average speed of 327 m.p.h. The company also built the famed "Spruce Goose," the eight-engine plywood plane that flew just once, with Hughes at the controls. Now a major defense contractor based in El Segundo, Calif., Hughes Aircraft is an important producer of satellites and missiles. It has high-security factories, where some of America's brightest engineers work on advanced military...
...start of the meeting, Gorbachev spoke, with only minor interruptions, for 1 hr. 45 min. "Maybe I'm taking too long," he said, "but maybe it's worth it for the world that we spend three or four hours together." He said he hoped that Congress would refrain from applying embargoes against East-bloc nations. He gave no ground on the shooting of the U.S. officer in East Germany and was noncommittal about the possibility of increasing Jewish emigration. He sarcastically lamented that the American press depicts Soviet citizens as "living in caves"--to which Massachusetts Congressman Silvio Conte responded...