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...sharply around to come in behind the Libyans. U.S. rules of engagement permit pilots to shoot back if fired upon, and each of the F-14s triggered a single heat-seeking Sidewinder missile, each scoring a hit on a Libyan plane. One of the Libyan pilots parachuted from his stricken aircraft, and was promptly rescued by a Libyan patrol boat. The engagement, 60 miles off the coast, lasted no more than one minute. It was the first U.S. military action since the ill-fated attempt of April 1980 to rescue the hostages in Iran...
...mother Betty, now 39, was grief-stricken. "I asked, 'What happened?' The doctors said, 'We don't know. Things like this happen.' " The answer did not satisfy Vadala: "That child meant too much for me to just bury her and forget about...
...reduced milk production. At least 33 different species are susceptible, mostly such cloven-hoofed creatures as cattle, sheep, pigs, goats and deer. For farmers the usual recourse is to kill, burn and bury infected livestock. Often an entire herd must be slaughtered, even if only one animal has been stricken, lest the disease spread. Some years ago, British authorities had to kill more than 280,000 animals to contain a major outbreak...
...assassination of the popular leader, who had retired from the military in 1977 in order to take office as President and lead Bangladesh back to civilian rule, left a power vacuum in the poverty-stricken country that acting President Abdus Sattar, 75, a mild-mannered moderate, was not likely to fill for long...
...impressionistic paean celebrated "the superficial truth of streets and structures, the trivial truth of reality." Subsequent early stories offered the kind of warming uplift that a Depression-stricken nation wanted to hear. But there was a scratchier side to this earthy romanticism. In 1940 the playwright rejected a Pulitzer Prize for the Broadway hit The Time of Your Life on the grounds that business could not judge art. As a Hollywood scenarist he squabbled with studio heads and cut a raffish, boisterous figure Gambling and drinking contributed to the breakup of his marriage and the decline of his fortunes...