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Brian Stollmeyer Port of Spain, Trinidad...
...timing was worthy of a first-rate Hollywood spy thriller. One day before the Swedish container ship Elgaren was due to make a seven-hour stop in the port of Hamburg, U.S. officials informed their colleagues in West Germany that the ship was carrying Soviet-bound contraband. Once the ship had docked, however, a Hamburg judge turned down the formal request for a search warrant on grounds of insufficient evidence. As the deadline ticked closer, a three-member panel of the appeals court reviewed and finally reversed the earlier decision. Just seven minutes before the Elgaren was scheduled to lift...
Without doubt, television and the media played an integral role in the Kennedy presidency, beginning with his impressive displays in the television debates with Richard Nixon during the 1960 campaign. As President, he held live, televised news conferences and invited Life and Look magazine photographers to Hyannis Port. Jacqueline Kennedy conducted a televised tour of the White House. As Theodore White has written, Kennedy was "responsible for much of the myth himself and his particular style was such as to captivate the myth-makers, the men of words and phrases...
...more than a week, the durable chieftain and some 4,000 diehard supporters fought off a savage offensive by an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 Syrian-backed guerrillas in and around the northern port city of Tripoli. According to Abu Mousa, leader of the rebel faction that mounted the assault, it was meant only to persuade Arafat to enter a "dialogue of reform" with P.L.O. dissidents who oppose his policies. The battle, in reality, was nothing less than a crude move by Syria to squelch Arafat once and for all and seize control of the P.L.O. Faced with...
...Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, working with Western Union and Merrill Lynch, is building a gigantic $84 million Teleport on New York City's Staten Island. Its 17 earth stations will be beamed at all domestic and some international satellites and will feed communications into the World Trade Center, skirting the phone company in New York City. Citicorp, the largest U.S. bank, is installing its own $100 million system in Wall Street's financial district, which will take most of its communications out of the phone system. Even Salt Lake City's Mormon Church...