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...four alleged ringleaders in the TWA hijacking and suspects in the killing of Navy Diver Robert Stethem. Hamadei is thought to be one of the two gunmen who were actually aboard TWA Flight 847 when it was commandeered and who savagely beat and then shot the American sailor. Hamadei was detained at Frankfurt's international airport after officials discovered he was carrying a false passport and bottles packed with liquid explosives...
...have more speed in a straight line, he doesn't want to go 24 hours at Le Mans." The series was also a classic duel of wily veteran vs. brash youth. Conner has some 10,000 hours on 12-meter boats. New Zealand Skipper Chris Dickson, 25, although a sailor since childhood, has been at their helms less than a year...
Eisenstaedt's pictures blur the line between the public and the personal, getting the intimate angle on great occasions and personalities but lending consequence to more modest events. Take possession of the times, they say, in the forms of intimate remembrance. Look at his most famous photograph, of a sailor planting a resolute kiss during the 1945 V-J day celebration in Times Square. A confident grip on the future at the hub of the American universe, a heartfelt smooch at the world's most celebrated intersection of the public and the private -- what other postwar picture at once acknowledged...
...came about leaked out in bits and pieces all last week from bewilderingly varied sources: an account published by a pro-Syrian weekly magazine in Beirut, a public speech by the speaker of the Iranian parliament, guarded private comments by government officials in Washington and Jerusalem, even a Danish sailor's revelations about a voyage through the Persian Gulf. Some of the more mind-boggling versions of the tale had touches of melodrama that might have come from the most lurid spy fiction: a presidential envoy slipping into Tehran bearing (so the Iranians claimed) presents of pistols, a Bible...
...union related the story of an October voyage as told by a sailor who asked not to be identified. He said that around Oct. 17 the coaster Morso picked up 26 containers full of ammunition in the Israeli port of Eilat and delivered them to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas. "We all knew there was ammunition on board," said the sailor, but Israeli authorities in Eilat took care to let no one else know. "The Israeli harbor authorities," the sailor added, "told us to take off all markings that could show we had been in Israel, including the markings...