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...commandos appeared, wearing civilian clothes (with identifying red armbands) and carrying automatic weap ons, rockets and enough high explosives to demolish the building. Attacking simultaneously, some of the guerrillas blasted a hole in the concrete wall with an antitank gun and swarmed through it; others quickly scaled a rear fence...
...ships, sometimes stopping dead in the water directly in front of it. At other times, Soviet ships would run closely parallel to the U.S. vessels, using the sounds of their engines and propellers to drown out reception from the U.S. underwater listening gear. The U.S. task force commander, Rear Admiral William A. Cockell Jr., told TIME's Tokyo bureau chief Edwin Reingold, "In some cases our ships have had to back off." When they did, their search patterns were spoiled...
...Soviet interceptor jets do not normally carry tracer ammunition. In any case, the Korean pilot apparently did not see the bursts, because even after they were fired he made no mention of anything unusual when he contacted controllers in Tokyo. The scrambling Soviet fighters generally stayed to the rear of the passenger plane and made no apparent attempt to get close enough to signal their presence. Indeed, one of the other revisions in the transcripts reveals the Su-15 pilot saying, "He still can't see me." Unfortunately, this created another ambiguity: Did the Soviet pilot mean that...
...final assault on the Nationalists; he and the entire Central Committee were to be on the march for the next two years. Mao, says the guide, left Yanan on March 19, 1947, maneuvering to lure Chiang Kai-shek after him while he closed in on Chiang's rear. The guide took us to where a red memorial now stands to Mao's son, killed by the artillery of the enemy in Korea, the enemy unnamed in courtesy to this American visitor...
...pilot of the Su-15, traveling southwestward at an undetermined altitude, reports to ground control that he has spotted the airliner. "I'm flying behind," he says seconds later. For approximately the next three minutes he stalks the unsuspecting jet from the rear...