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...giant barrels, each 12-ft. long by 4-ft. wide. The barrels had dense air pockets at each end enabling them to float and adjustable valves so that they could hang just beneath the surface of the sea. The plan, the Israelis say, was for a frogman named Salaam as-Skandari, a Palestinian trained by Hajj Bassem, to guide them to the Gaza shore. As-Skandari, along with the rest of the crew, are in Israeli detention...
ATTACK AUG. 7, 1998 DAR-ES-SALAAM, TANZANIA & NAIROBI, KENYA Truck bombs hit U.S. embassies in both cities, killing 224, including 12 Americans. Bin Laden and 20 others were later indicted; four received life sentences...
...road, it's just a way of life, like a gypsy, I suppose." She gets to her home in Bournemouth "three days in between trips here, and four days there, and occasionally as long as three weeks. That's maximum." Her other home is in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, but that one is filled with students. When she visits her beloved Gombe National Park, where her chimps live, she is usually accompanied by one film crew or another. She spends most of her time in the U.S. and Canada but also gets to Japan and China. "There are other places...
Goodall, who is widowed, has an adult son Hugo, who lives in Dar es Salaam with her three grandchildren. "Unfortunately, he's not at all involved in anything I care about," she says. "He does fishing. He takes people out sports fishing, but he's also mixed up in commercial fishing." Don't look for fish or anything animal on Goodall's plate. She has been a vegetarian for nearly 30 years...
Douglas Sidialo, 31, lost his eyesight on Aug. 7, 1998, when terrorists bombed the U.S. embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. A simultaneous bombing at the embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, resulted in a total of 224 people dead and thousands injured. The U.S. responded quickly with $50 million in humanitarian aid. But, says Sidialo, who heads Nairobi's largest survivors' group, "It's our hope that Americans could help us even more...