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...exploded last week, Mitterrand's government clung to the findings of the Tricot report. But doubts were already growing within the Cabinet and the Socialist Party. Le Monde, among others, charged that the true saboteurs of the Rainbow Warrior were neither the jailed pair of French agents nor the three-man crew of the spy yacht Ouvea, which allegedly had been sent from the French territory of New Caledonia to back up the operation. The real hitmen, claimed Le Monde, were two unidentified frogmen, probably from France's underwater demolition training base in Corsica, who were supplied with explosives...
...boxes began to arrive at election headquarters in the capital of San Salvador, right- wingers led by D'Aubuisson charged that the military had conspired with the Christian Democrats to perpetrate an electoral fraud. The protest stalled official vote counting pending a ruling by the Central Election Council, a three-man body dominated by conservatives. Fears arose that the election might be invalidated...
When a beaming Ronald Reagan bid farewell to his three-man arms-negotiating team last Friday morning in the White House Roosevelt Room, he gave each a fat notebook to put in his briefcase. The papers comprised the President's instructions, just made final, on how the U.S. is to carry out its side of the deliberations in Geneva, which begin this week. Along with these marching orders, Reagan sped the negotiators forth with an exhortation to be patient during the "long and difficult" bargaining ahead. "All God's children have lived with the fear of nuclear war," declared Reagan...
...Mojave Desert when a chase plane radioed to Co-Pilot Doug Benefield, "How are you doing, Doug?" Replied Benefield: "We may have to punch it. We have to punch." Those were his last known words. Command Pilot Richard Reynolds pulled the eject handle, flinging the cock pit and its three-man crew free of the plane just 9 sec. before it slammed into the ground. Two of the men escaped with injuries...
...that Sputnik, the world's first man-made satellite, was launched, its thin, metallic beep announcing that the space age had begun. Since then, the Soviets have scored a notable string of other cosmic firsts: the first animal in space (a dog), the first man, the first woman. The first space walk was taken by a cosmonaut. The first pictures of the moon's hidden side were shot by an orbiting Soviet camera. The first simultaneous launch of two manned flights and the first three-man craft were also Soviet accomplishments...