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...rock the boat" by publicly disputing the Warren Commission's finding that Oswald was the lone assassin. But he is adamant that the head wound suffered by the President came from the front of the motorcade, thus making it impossible for Oswald to have murdered Kennedy from a sixth-floor rear perch. The physician says it is clear that "someone had tampered with the body" during its extralegal transfer from Texas to the autopsy room at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland, presumably to support a single-gunman scenario. The injuries shown on autopsy photos, Crenshaw says, "are not the same...
...Iraqi Ambassador Mohammed al-Mashat sat across from Kelly and other U.S. officials in Kelly's sixth-floor office at the State Department. The conversation was tense. Kelly warned Mashat that the U.S. was deeply concerned about the military buildup, that the massing of forces had created anxiety throughout the area. Mashat blamed U.S. rhetoric for increased fears. Preposterous, answered Kelly, noting that 100,000 Iraqi troops were deployed along the Kuwait border. Iraq, said Mashat, had the right to move its troops within Iraqi territory as it pleased; he also assured Kelly that press accounts of negotiations with Kuwait...
...Pilots returning from the first attack described an awesome pattern of flashing multicolored lights -- some antiaircraft bursts, some bombs -- brightening the dark ground and skies. One after another likened it to a Fourth of July fireworks display or a Christmas tree. A British television correspondent standing on a sixth-floor balcony of Al Rasheed Hotel reported a weird sight: a U.S. cruise missile whizzing past at eye level and slamming into the Iraqi Defense Ministry nearby...
...sell for $15,000 and up. When asked where the ivory comes from, salesmen simply say "Africa." The Lai family's Kee Cheong Ivory Factory boasts in a brochure that it can produce 30,000 ivory bangles, 40,000 necklaces and 100,000 rings every month. In its squalid sixth-floor shop, high-speed drills send up plumes of ivory dust, and tusks registered in Singapore and Sudan are stacked like firewood...
Dean of Continuing Education Michael Shinagel at Quincy House also helped initiate new measures. In 1986 a small sixth-floor blaze filled corridors of that house with acrid, toxic smoke during Christmas break...