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...pressure. Their tapes of conversations in the airliner's cockpit could show whether the crew had any warning before a Soviet Su-15 interceptor knocked Flight 007 out of the sky, killing all 269 aboard. For the U.S., retrieval of the boxes could mean the opportunity to strengthen the Reagan Administration's case about the brutality of the incident. The U.S. fears that if the Soviets find the recorders, they will alter or destroy the information in them...
...Beirut, the people of the city, who were desperately eager for the fighting to end, were greatly encouraged. When he left, they again became despondent. Assad remained obdurate, and according to some diplomats, Gemayel too seemed less than eager to end hostilities. Each leader apparently thought he could still strengthen his bargaining position by making military gains on the ground...
...past 100 years, the temple's scourges have been more prosaic, though equally serious. From the 1890s to the 1930s, well-meaning architects sought to strengthen the battered Parthenon, which originally consisted of some 12,500 white marble stones hewn from Mount Pentelicus, ten miles to the north. The restorers added new iron clamps and rods to hold the marble stones in position. But in doing so, they ignored the wisdom of the Parthenon's original designers, the sculptor Phidias and Architects Ictinus and Callicrates. During the installation of the temple's original iron reinforcing rods...
Herlihy said that wooing Jones was "part of a general effort to strengthen the Senior Common Room and give it more variety...
...Administration acts to strengthen, and justify, the Marines'position...