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...ends the recording. While divers located two of the plane's engines on the ocean floor today, they have yet to salvage huge chunks of the airplane. "Although the Navy is sending divers to check out the wreckage, their priority is still finding the victims," says TIME's Elaine Rivera, reporting from East Moriches. "No manpower will be expended on a major salvage operation until all of the bodies have been recovered." Two more bodies were recovered today, bringing the total to 140 of the 230 people on the aircraft. "The NTSB and FBI have not yet ruled...
...what the sound was, and said the flight data recorder tape had been contaminated by water and needed further study. Francis said divers on Wednesday found the data and voice recorders, which are carried in the tails of jetliners, almost directly underneath a Navy vessel. TIME's Elaine Rivera reports that the investigators appear upbeat, even though the first analysis of the two black boxes revealed no major clues. "Kallstrom called himself an optimist, and speculated they'll have an idea what cause the crash within one week." While forensic scientists continue to evaluate the information from the tapes...
...thinks he's held on to his old way of thinking, except that now he blames the government and the New World Order. By the early '80s, Ralph was railing against high mortgage rates and unfair foreclosures, and in 1982 he appeared on a 20/20 segment with Geraldo Rivera...
...early and vocal anti-Bolshevik. Born to a middle-class Jewish family in Kiev in 1891, he joined the Party in his teens but later quit in disgust at its intolerance and inability to understand art. Instead he lived as a Bohemian in Paris, making friends with Diego Rivera and Picasso. Even the Revolution didn't win him over to Communism; he returned to Russia in 1918, only to leave again three years later and write his first novel, The Extraordinary Adventures of Julio Jurenito and His Disciples, a Candide-like satire on revolutionists of all stripes...
...been on the federal law books since 1988, but was not enforced by most housing authorities. Now, housing authorities will be graded on their compliance with the law, low scores resulting in lowered federal aid and increased supervision. "Clinton is seizing the crime issue," says TIME's Elaine Rivera. "He's attempting to show how tough he is on crime and heading the Republicans off." But in the often chaotic world of public housing, Rivera notes, the law may be extremely difficult to enforce...