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...equipment. As they neared the sea floor, Ballard said, "we came in on a wall of black steel. It seemed endless in all directions." Alvin skirted the Titanic's knife-edge bow, where the great liner's name was obscured by "rivers of rust," then explored the foredeck and port side, where the scientists spotted portholes, the glass unbroken. They saw where the Titanic had split apart, just behind the third smokestack...
...near equivalent of the royal wedding that Britain is preparing for, albeit with a slight reversal of roles. At Westminster Abbey this Wednesday, with suitable pomp and ceremony, Prince Andrew of the House of Windsor weds his commoner (but uncommon) love, Sarah Ferguson. But near Hyannis Port, Mass., last Saturday, the bride was the Princess of Camelot when Caroline Bouvier Kennedy, 28, daughter of President John F. Kennedy and former First Lady Jacqueline Onassis, was married to the very un-Kennedyesque Edwin Arthur Schlossberg, 13 years her senior...
...Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the allied Syrian Socialist Nationalist Party, claimed joint responsibility for the "seaborne suicide operation." Twelve hours later, Israel countered with a bombing raid that blew up an ammunition dump and several buildings at Ein el Hilweh, a Palestinian refugee camp near the port city of Sidon on the Lebanese coast...
Still, notes former Johannesburg Mayor Monty Sklaar, "you find a terrible anti-black attitude among the lower-income groups. Part of the problem is that they see blacks as a threat to their jobs, and it's getting worse." Jacob Kruger, the owner of a Port Elizabeth engineering company, says he is optimistic about some of the recent reforms but pessimistic about a hardening white attitude that seems to him to be saying "The West has deserted us, so we'll go it alone and do it our way." Concludes Kruger: "I'm afraid that if this attitude wins...
...hopeless romantic, Elaine tries to emotionally back away from Peter all throughout the next day as she shows him the sights. (Apparently, there is something to see in Liverpool or so Director Bernard would have us believe.) Peter's a sailor. He's probably got a girl in every port. Maybe what she's feeling isn't love at all--just infatuation which will fade as soon as Peter's out of sight. Doubts vaporize as the two intertwine their fingers across the chain link fence on the docks beside Peter's ship, however. What does one say to someone...