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...UMass opens the season here November 30 and they don't know what's going on. They know there's a new coach and all, but what if they walked into a packed gym--that would really stun them. That's why fans are important to the team right now," McLaughlin says...
...Carter had lied. Ever increasing staffs of experts have bolstered the self-confidence of the men on the Hill?some of whom had ample self-confidence to begin with. The aides often know as much or more about the subjects than the newcomers in the White House and can stun the Carter spear carriers with questions...
...popular TV show of the '50s, The Millionaire, a vigilant philanthropist would single out deserving citizens and then stun them with a big check. Philanthropist Thomas Cannon, 53, is no multimillionaire, however. He is a black postal worker in Richmond earning $16,000 a year, who in the past five years has somehow managed to give away more than $33,000 of his own money. Most of it has gone, in $1,000 checks, to strangers whose misfortunes or good deeds he has read about. Some of his beneficiaries: a Colombian orphan who needed heart surgery; a couple...
...called Schmidt to offer their support as well as their sympathy was British Prime Minister James Callaghan; Schmidt gladly accepted the offer. Accordingly, the British provided the West Germans with 1) special, highly sensitive listening devices for locating the terrorists within the plane and 2) a supply of British "stun grenades," which explode without scattering metal fragments, but can immobilize an enemy for about six seconds with their sound and flash. The stun grenades-along with two experts from Britain's crack Special Air Service regiment-were soon en route to Dubai...
...control tower, 28 commandos-their faces blackened and bodies camouflaged-stealthily approached the hijacked plane. Suddenly, there was an explosion on the runway-a diversion, and a signal for the attack. Smashing the emergency exits and blowing open the main doors with special explosives, the rescuers lobbed their stun grenades into the cabin. "Hinlegen! Hinlegen!" (Lie down! Lie down!) they shouted as they streamed aboard...