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...board of inquiry ruled out accidental causes, called the explosion a "wrongful, intentional act" and said it had found "foreign material" in the key gun barrel. The admirals theorized that a detonator had been placed between powder bags and that someone had rammed the bags more tightly than normal. Hartwig was, the Navy said, in the best position to direct this. The board did not cite a motive, and one of its members said it had "no hard evidence" to confirm reports that Hartwig may have been a homosexual who was distraught over the ending of a friendship with another...
...investigators, however, did not check out another possibility: that the detonator had been placed inside one of the powder bags before it reached the turret's gun level. Many sailors had access to the bags while they were stored in the turret's powder magazine. Hartwig's angry sister Kathy called the board's findings "obscene and incredible" and threatened to sue the Navy...
...supply of cocaine in the U.S. "The cartels are having trouble getting cocaine out of Colombia," said Pat O'Brien, outgoing chief of U.S. Customs in Miami. The government has seized so many of the traffickers' planes and helicopters that they may be having difficulty moving the powder to Colombia's northern coast, the main shipment point for cocaine. And on the drug-hungry streets of the U.S., the price of cocaine is skyrocketing...
...Sept. 18, 1931, a Japanese army lieutenant meticulously wired 42 cubes of yellow blasting powder and buried the load in the earth 5 ft. from railroad tracks north of the Manchurian city of Mukden (now Shenyang). The explosives would throw a lot of dirt but cause little damage to the rail line. After all, the South Manchurian Railroad was Japanese-owned and linked the empire's economic outposts in predominantly Chinese Manchuria. All the army wanted was an "incident...
...some important ways, however, the matchups look quite different. For one thing, the debt-free nature of the Time-Warner deal would have given the merged company far more flexibility than a Time-Paramount consolidation might have. "The Time-Warner combination left everybody's powder dry to be able to go out and make acquisitions," says Larry Gerbrandt, a vice president of Paul Kagan Associates, a California-based communications-industry analyst. "But in a tender offer like Paramount's, you have to load up with a tremendous amount of debt that limits your options. The strategy can work...