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SUPERTRAIN (NBC, daily, 7 a.m.-2 a.m.) Last show of the series. The Supertrain is commandeered by Freddie, a brilliant but unstable technician who rearranges the schedule, fires the porters, loses most of his passengers and nearly derails the crack RCA Express. Freddie: Fred Silverman. Executive discretion is advised...
...speed communications and computer gear. His scheming partners in InterTechnology, Inc., were two former CIA undercover agents: Edwin P. Wilson, 52, who had helped to organize the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, and Frank E. Terpil, 41, who had worked overseas for the agency as a communications technician. Wilson, known as "the ice-man" at the agency, was a cold yet charming operative who kept in gregarious touch with his CIA buddies. He often took Mulcahy along to suburban Washington bars, like the Rough Rider Lounge at the Ramada Inn in Tyson Corners, Va., where agents gathered. Mulcahy...
...sortie rankled European governments as well. Most ruffled were the French, who supplied the Iraqis with the reactor, who lost a technician as the only reported casualty of the raid and whose newly elected Socialist President, François Mitterrand, had declared his willingness to strengthen ties with Israel. Said French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson: "I am saddened. This government has a great deal of sympathy for Israel, but we don't think such action serves the cause of peace in the area." In her typically blunt fashion, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher summed up the view of many others: "Armed...
...takes familiar material and gives it a characteristic touch of astringency that keeps it from being sentimental. Playing against Martins' coolness is the fervor with which the youngsters perform. Lisa Jackson is a formidable technician at 19, and Gen Horiuchi, 16, has a thrilling attack and dumbfounding poise. He seems to have minutely observed his mentor (one hand on hip, glance askance) and also Baryshnikov (a tendency to open his mouth to show emotion). The audience loved...
...flight deck past the last of the arresting cables and caromed some 500 ft., its right wing lopping chunks off parked jets along the way. Finally it rammed broadside into a "six pack" of fueled F-14 Tomcat fighters. "There was just one big boom," recalled Naval Aviation Technician Dale Stewart, 19. "It all happened so fast. All you could see was flying pieces of aircraft." Said Petty Officer Richard Elkin: "There were screams of pain everywhere...