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...enlisted men said in their confessions that López Sibrian told them: "Look, inside the hotel is Viera and two other fair-skinned men. You are going to kill them." Soon after, López Sibrian handed Gómez González a 9-mm Ingram submachine gun. Meanwhile another officer, Captain Eduardo Avila, slapped a .45-cal. submachine gun, equipped with a silencer, in Valle Acevedo's hands...
Administration officials had little time to rejoice over that small victory before they received more bad news from Beirut. A 155-mm "cluster" shell, of the type supplied by the U.S. to Israel, exploded on the airport tarmac, killing one Marine and wounding three others. The shell was apparently left over from the heavy fighting last summer between Israeli troops and guerrillas of the P.L.O. The dead man, Corporal David L. Reagan, 21, of Chesapeake, Va., was a combat engineer assigned to clear the airport of land mines and other explosives...
...sentence. Still more commands direct the movement of a tiny triangular character called the turtle, which crawls across the screen leaving a trace of where it has been. Typing in, say, RIGHT 90, turns the turtle 90° to the right. FORWARD 50 sends it sliding forward about 50 mm. Sitting down at a Logo computer, eight-year-olds can start getting simple results almost immediately. They can also put commands together, like building blocks, to teach the turtle new tricks. With skillful supervision they will be writing their own programs before the first hour...
...arrest and conviction. Said Eder: "I've been looking at his pictures all year. Let me tell you how good this Neil Leifer is. The only camera in America better than Neil Leifer's is at Citibank." Leifer photographed Eder by mounting his Nikon with a 16-mm fisheye lens on the ceiling right over the middle of the cell, then using a remote-controlled infra-red signal to snap the shutter in order to keep himself out of the picture...
...only a few hundred meters away: "This is the big thing. The planes will come in about 90 minutes." By dawn the artillery exchanges had become so fierce that it was dangerous for us to stay in so exposed a position at the Hotel Alexandre. Palestinian mortars and 130-mm shells exploded near by, sending shards of steel shrapnel onto the hotel roof...