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...alleged to have regularly pilfered letters from relatives and friends of suspected terrorist fugitives. The indictment charges that in carrying out "the mail run," as the agents came to call it, they used illegally obtained mailbox keys and opened the letters at FBI headquarters in Manhattan with a "steamer"-a device that allows resealing without evidence of tampering. Agents also tapped phones of numerous eavesdropping targets without obtaining required court permission. Despite those efforts, they failed to turn up Bernardine Dohrn or other Weather Underground fugitives accused of complicity in various protest bombing attacks...
...children bear the consequences of his guilt, and he imprisons them. After a while, the children's captivity becomes an international scandal and the Red Cross is called in to inspect the situation. In a panic the patriarch orders the children shipped to the farthest jungles, put on a steamer and blown up. He then kills the men who executed his order--poor kids, he says...
...year-old brass bell rang out from the bow. Music from the world's largest steam calliope floated to the shore, where hundreds of spectators gathered to watch. A flotilla of small craft escorted the shining white steamer under the Cincinnati Suspension Bridge as it headed for Louisville at the start of its leisurely journey to New Orleans and back...
...most dauntless of Saint Laurent's private clients. "It's gorgeous but it's unwearable," complained one buyer. Said a rich client, "I buy clothes to travel, and with this collection it is one dress for one suitcase. This may bring back the steamer trunk...
...time Mostert has evoked this world-as graphically as Conrad presents the Sturm und Drang facing the captain of the steamer Nan-Shan in Typhoon-the reader, stuffed with sea lore, has been shanghaied aboard a ghostly voyage from the demanding past into the threatening future. Ardshiel has bicycles-for exercising on deck-but no ship pets, because. Mostert suggests, there is no crew continuity. (By contrast, the Aquitania, when scrapped in 1950, disgorged ship's cats all descended from a tabby who went aboard on the maiden voyage in 1914). Mostert mildly mourns the fact that nobody refers...