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...Titanic, running videotapes shot by the Argo as it was dragged by the Knorr back and forth in a series of passes over the site. The dramatic tapes clearly show the great ship sitting upright, pointing toward the north and covered with a fine layer of silt. The port and starboard anchor chains are wrapped around their capstans, still holding the anchors in place, and in the top deck there is a gaping hole that was once a skylight. Through it, Ballard told his viewers, "you can see right down the grand staircase." The railings and wooden deck are intact...
...Chinese rookie cop whom White has inserted as a mole in Tai's operation. What follows is a more than predictable series of cat-and-mouse games between White and Tai, climaxing in a surprisingly uneventful and rather boring shoot-'em-out at the New York City Port Authority...
...days later that threat became reality when two car bombs blew up in predominantly Muslim West Beirut. The next day the explosion of a small stick of dynamite tossed from a passing car lured curious people into Saddun Square in the northern port of Tripoli. The dynamite charge was deadly bait; a booby- trapped car in the square exploded, killing 45 and wounding...
Shortly before, leaders of the antiapartheid United Democratic Front coalition accused government-backed "death squads" of killing four black activists whose bodies were found in the Port Elizabeth area. The government denied any involvement...
There are now large ghettos within ghettos. Haitians, about half of them in the U.S. illegally, are concentrated in the heart of Brooklyn's black area in a quarter they call La Saline, after the Port au Prince neighborhood from which many came. Hand-lettered French signs are pasted on walls and hung uncertainly from storefronts. Creole patois burbles everywhere. One hot afternoon on Nostrand Avenue recently, the Impeccable barber shop was crowded. Men had gathered under the fans for companionship, a bit of gossip, not haircuts. "We Haitians love to get together," says the owner of a neighborhood restaurant...