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Reagan's hyperbolic rhetoric in support of a policy which condones this hemisphere's most brutal fighting force only amplifies the moral emptiness of the policy to a deafening roar. Last week at the Kennedy School, even former National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane expressed doubts about funding the Contras as long as their terrorist activities continued...
They had blasted off from Cape Canaveral last January to the thunderous roar of Challenger's five rocket engines. They returned last week to a respectfully silent ceremony on the Cape's runway where their shuttle mission, if successful, would have landed. The quiet was broken only by two disparate sounds: the somber cadence of tramping boots as an Air Force honor guard gently placed the seven flag-draped coffins aboard a Lockheed C-141 transport plane, and the cheery song of a nearby flock of mockingbirds...
...Everytime they scored, the roar was deafening," Wardenburg said...
...fueler--rail thin, about 20 ft. long, with big, sticky rear wheels and a high wing in back. Behind the driver, the engine throws flame from its exhaust headers and makes a noise that starts like a garbage truck under heavy gunfire and increases rapidly to an apocalyptic roar. "It'll blow your nose for you," one fan declares...
...awarded not to the winner but to the loser of the struggle for this wet, muddy wasteland. Heavy trucks carrying Iraqi soldiers and supplies to the front rumble over roads running along levees, above the marshy terrain approaching Fao. The Iranians, using flat-bottomed boats with powerful outboard engines, roar across the blue-green waters of the gulf to deliver ammunition and reinforcements, who bring the latest , exhortations of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini...