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After weeks of feverish anticipation and frenzied publicity, the world's most glamorous and relentlessly observed twosome arrived in the capital of what was once their kingdom's richest possession. By the time they stepped off their plane on Saturday morning at Andrews Air Force Base, all the RSVPs had been sent out, thank you, and the A list firmly separated from the B. Washington had settled in to gawk and gossip about the royal heroic couplet...
Their Royal Highnesses are the souls of punctuality, and their Royal Australian Air Force jet touched down at Andrews right on time, at 8:40 a.m. When Diana and Charles stepped out of the plane into sparkling sunshine, the crowd of 4,000 royalty oglers let out a deferentially reserved hurrah. Diana, dressed in a radiant red suit with a white shawl collar and wearing an oversize red fez, was clearly the cynosure...
...officials were alerted to the shipments last month when routine satellite surveillance spotted five Soviet ships loaded with crates docked at a Nicaraguan port near Bluefields. On Oct. 31, their suspicions were raised further when an SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance plane photographed military equipment that is commonly used by the Nicaraguans being unloaded from other Soviet ships in the Cuban port of Mariel. The intelligence analysts say the deliveries included at least two batteries of SA-2 or SA-3 surface-to-air missiles, which reportedly will be installed at the Punta Huete air base near Managua. The Soviets also...
...hostages' message urged the President to work for their release by abandoning his policy against negotiating with terrorists. "You negotiated over the hostages from the TWA plane," the letter read. "We are asking for the same consideration. There is no alternative." The letters complained that the hostages were being held without "proper exercise, sanitation, fresh air or balanced diet." The White House reaffirmed its longstanding policy against negotiating with terrorists, but Administration Spokesman Edward Djerejian nonetheless declared that the U.S. was prepared to "talk with the abductors themselves to obtain the release of the hostages." CHINA Stop-and-Go Reforms...
...next 55 minutes, the plane was pushed 69 miles off course by 200-knot winds and dangerously close to the Soviet defense zone at Sakhalin. When crew members realized the error, they radioed Soviet controllers, who granted permission for the plane to change course. Only later did Nishioka learn that Soviet jets had been put on airborne alert and had trailed his craft. While the incident ended happily enough, it was a chilling reminder of Korean Air Lines Flight 007, which in September 1983 also strayed near Sakhalin. The Soviets fired on the jet, killing all 269 people on board...