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Besides the Soviet Union, many other countries are barred from receiving hundreds of thousands of U.S. products. High-speed marine outboard motors might seem like a device designed more for water-skiing than war, but in Iran's case the Administration embargoes them because the country has launched motorboat attacks in the Persian Gulf conflict. In a now notorious episode, a U.S. company was about to ship 50 radios (price: $28,500 each) to a supposed Libyan fig farm. But the Pentagon blocked the sale after learning that the radios were equipped with 785,000 fast-switching channels for evading...
...washing machine and spin dryer," has hung out his cameras to dry after each day's work. Forster has 15 years of experience as a marine photographer, which helped him retain his composure when he and Mason were taking photos of Conner's Stars & Stripes last week and their motorboat began to sink. They quickly radioed for help...
...news is conveyed casually. In one chapter we are gunkholing with all the Vincents in their motorboat, and in the next an indeterminate amount of time has passed, and we learn that Rosie was killed when a train hit her car. It is an effective narrative trick that Minot might have learned from John Irving, who could have got it from Evelyn Waugh. Like them, Minot also knows how to blend the touching and the macabre. Monkeys ends with the Vincents each taking a handful of Rosie's ashes ("rounded and porous, like little ruins...
...living," says Zaccaro. "My life has been the real estate business. I've always loved it. The thrill is to get two people to agree on a deal. And then the culmination is to take a check to the bank." Away from work, he relaxes on a motorboat docked on Long Island Sound; he also has season tickets for New York Rangers hockey games...
...plan of attack well rehearsed and thorough. Leaving a fishing cabin rented under a false name, the group of eight split into three teams; two of them rode in vans loaded with unmarked cardboard cartons while the third left in a 17-ft. outboard motorboat. The van teams entered the huge U.S. Marine base at Camp Lejeune, N.C., through different gates and joined forces at the PX parking lot. They stopped briefly at Second Division headquarters, then drove to an on-base junior high school, where hundreds of unsuspecting students were attending classes. The boat team, meanwhile, sneaked undetected onto...