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...skimmers. The Stark disaster has not changed that view. Former Navy Secretary John Lehman points out that although the Sheffield was destroyed by a single Exocet, the Stark, with a more durable superstructure and redundant protective systems, was hit by two missiles and still "sailed home under its own steam." Moreover, since the U.S. frigate was blindsided by a supposedly friendly plane, its defensive systems were never tested. "This is basically a weird exception," says Michael MccGwire, a naval intelligence specialist at the Brookings Institution. "Under normal circumstances the Stark would have blown the aircraft...
...fireworks have been provided by Crystal Beach residents, who have been squabbling over their local government since the city was incorporated in 1971. Texas Rangers were once called out to restore order at a tempestuous city-council meeting. Two campaigns to disincorporate Crystal Beach failed. But the rebellion gathered steam last year after the city imposed a $5 beach parking fee and two municipal officials were indicted for misconduct. Groused former Mayor Hank March: "We've been putting up with mismanagement and ineptitude for 16 years." As Crystal Beach braces for the tumult of its annual Crab Festival this weekend...
...Spell 7, written in 1980, is like Hollywood Shuffle without the comedy and without a plot. The Mather House production has some powerful moments and excellent performances, and its political message is compelling. But sometime around the middle of the second, and last act, the performance runs out of steam...
...officers, took a course in basic intelligence gathering. One final exam called for surreptitiously opening a series of sealed envelopes, each inside the one before, and removing a note from the last envelope before resealing the lot. "I successfully extracted my message," says Van Voorst, "but students who used steam were dismayed, because the envelopes had been treated with a purple dye that reacted to the heat...
...degrees F and snowing hard. Bill Hyland, then a Ford aide and now editor of Foreign Affairs, chuckled inwardly at the bizarre spectacle of some of the world's most powerful men walking in a strange courtyard at midnight, befurred heads together like so many frozen caterpillars, clouds of steam rising from their whispers about throwweights and MIRVs...