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...borough's complexion is clearly changing. As poorer people, mostly black and hispanic, move in, the middle class retreats southward or leaves entirely. Racial tensions, long dormant or mild, rise to the surface. To the Jews, this influx of 'schvartzes' (Yiddish for dark-skinned people) represents a clear threat to their middle class lives. Worse still, this "invasion" threatens their basic values. People who played by the rules of the game are apt to react defensively when the rules are changed in midgame. The Jewish middle class sees itself under attack for succeeding, and becoming wealthy, by the economic rules...
Exploration crews have been probing the Tuscaloosa Sand since the early 1960s, but the gas proved elusive. Formed 65 million years ago in northern Louisiana and swept southward by ancient rivers, it lay hidden under a layer of limestone that distorted the echoes of shock waves by which geologists map underground formations. But a Chevron geologist's hunch, confirmed by tests using computer techniques, led prospectors to a swampy field on the Parlange plantation. When the drill bit spun into a zone of extreme pressure 21,345 ft. down, the gas and steam crushed the well casing, ripped...
Meanwhile, the German 707 with the second contingent of G.S.G. 9 men aboard took off from Crete. "This is Uniform Bravo, airborne over Egyptian territory," the captain told Frankfurt. "Got clearance to fly southward." Frankfurt replied: "Urgent that you reach Mogadishu airport as soon as possible. Rush your flight plan to Somalia. Do not waste time." A short time later, Frankfurt reversed itself and asked Uniform Bravo to slow down and see if it could land at Djibouti for a while. Uniform Bravo then reported that Djibouti was "asking too many questions we cannot answer," so Frankfurt ordered: "Keep holding...
...completed before U.S. reconnaissance photos could detect the ruse. In 1941-42 the Japanese had island-hopping plans of their own. From their major base at Rabaul, just off New Guinea, they moved to Buka and Bougainville-the most northerly of the Solomons. From there, they established bases southward on other islands, including Guadalcanal...
Their flight over Belgium, France and Spain, then southward over the Atlantic, had been smooth. Some may have been able to read KLM's in-flight magazine, featuring their skipper, Captain Veldhuizen, as a handsome example of the airline's reputation for "reliability." When word was radioed to the crew that Las Palmas Airport had been closed because terrorists had touched off a bomb in a local flower shop, injuring eight people, they landed at Tenerife instead. Veldhuizen took advantage of the delay to refuel his plane for the flight back to Holland. He took on 21,000 gallons...