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...comprehensive leatures and issue pieces. Although he thinks Baseball is the quintessential American sport, covering it, be admits, is "disastrous for family life." "Basketball was fun but I hated to travel in the snow." Jackson's own sports fantasy would be to play professional tennis. "You could lose a ton of matches and still make a lot of money playing in warm weather," Jackson jokes...
...ton Greek freighter Antigoni was steaming through the Persian Gulf toward the Iranian port of Bandar-Khomeini when members of the crew saw a silver streak glinting above the waves. The next instant, a missile slammed into the ship's stern about 5 ft. above the water line, and the 15 crewmen scrambled into the lifeboat. "We were 500 meters away when there was a second explosion," said First Mate George Galakopoulos. "It cut the ship in two. There was so much smoke I couldn't see anything." The crew was saved, but the Antigoni and its cargo...
...documents filed with the SEC, which weighed half a ton, provided the first detailed look at how A T & T thinks the eight new companies will fare after the New Year's Day breakup. The most carefully studied report was a 267-page information statement and prospectus that will be sent to every A T & T shareholder during the next few weeks; printing and distributing that document alone cost $3.9 million. In the study, A T & T projected that its new slimmed-down company, which includes long-distance service, Western Electric and the Bell Laboratories, would show revenues...
...similarities were eerie. As dawn was breaking over southern Lebanon last Friday morning, a suicidal terrorist driving a bomb-laden Chevrolet pickup crashed through the barricade at the Israeli military headquarters in the Lebanese port city of Tyre. Practically in the middle of the compound, nearly half a ton of explosives detonated, killing 28 Israeli soldiers and military personnel and 32 Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners who were being held in one of the buildings. Forty-one other people were wounded. For the Israelis, who had bolstered their security following the deaths of some 230 U.S. Marines and other servicemen...
...committee members were not persuaded by Kelley's assertion that despite the embassy attack, "no one anticipated" that a terrorist using a five-ton truck would be able to crash through Marine defenses. As Maine's Senator William Cohen put it, "It's not a leap of logic to see if they bomb you with a car, they can bomb you with a truck...