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...Japan last year. Mounted in a torpedo-shaped housing, the side-scanner emits pulses horizontally as well as vertically. It is towed behind a search ship, which methodically crisscrosses a designated area, to produce a detailed chart of the sea floor. By studying the "hits" on charts, an experienced technician can pick out possible ship ruins. "We found eleven targets in the first two days," says Harrington. His divers then went down to investigate; the fifth wreck they checked was the De Braak, the object of their hunt...
...musical Europe, comes at the age of 26 to the Viennese court of Hapsburg Emperor Joseph II (played with a sly, thin smile and a delicious air of cagey indecisiveness by Jeffrey Jones). There the man of the moment is Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham): court composer, consummate technician and politician, Emperor's favorite, a musical lion of Vienna. Most important, he knows his place, as an educated servant among masters of the blood and the bureaucracy. Mozart, fatally, does...
...strategy sounds simple, but the catch is that it is predicated on sacrifice. Thus Bart Conner, at 26 the smooth old master technician of the squad, an Olympian since 1976 and one of two American men since 1932 to win an individual gold medal in a world championship (the other: Kurt Thomas), was sent to the floor second and third to "make base" for the more flamboyant routines of Vidmar and Mitch Gaylord. Similarly, James Hartung, 24, and Scott Johnson, 23, dutifully rolled out in the early rounds, though they knew that in doing so, they gave up their hopes...
After 45 years in the foreign service, 27 as Foreign Minister and nearly eleven in the Politburo, Gromyko is at the height of his power. Long respected and reviled as the Soviet Union's most dutiful diplomatic technician, he has become not only the custodian of Moscow's foreign policy but probably its chief architect...
...down the gulf near the Saudi island of Al Arabiyah, where they ran straight into a patrol of Saudi F-15 planes. Highflying U.S. AWACS planes had tracked the Iranian jets across the gulf, then Saudi coastal radar picked them up when they came within range. With the Saudi technician aboard the AWACS plane relaying information and guiding his own fighters, the two Saudi F-15s intercepted the less-advanced F-4s, and the fight took place...