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Last week a harsher reality intruded. Picked up by a torpedo boat, whose commander was one of the hundreds of officers sacked by Papadopoulos, the five were sped to the port of Piraeus. From there they were taken to Korydallos prison and placed behind bars, along with the sixth member of the junta's inner circle, former Brigadier General Dimitrios loannidis. All six await trial on charges of insurrection and high treason. If convicted, they face a maximum penalty of death by firing squad...
...would have a say and where they would be assured a seat. Beyond that, they suspect Washington's ties to Israel. In an interview with Le Monde earlier this month, Arafat attacked "American Zionist intrigues in which certain Arab countries are participating." The aim, he added, was to "torpedo the Geneva conference and to isolate Syria." The reference to "certain Arab countries" probably meant Egypt, which the P.L.O. worries may get too far ahead of its Middle Eastern partners in disengagement talks with Israel. Arafat and the Palestinians were presumably heartened last week when Egyptian President Anwar Sadat...
...from large ships like the 425-ft. freighter Marine Sulphur Queen, which disappeared off the Dry Tortugas in 1963, to small yachts, like the ocean racer Revonoc, which vanished off Florida in 1967. He also makes much of the famous "lost patrol" incident in December 1945, when five Navy torpedo bombers on a training flight, as well as a flying boat sent out to search for them, seemed to vanish into thin air. Heightening the sense of mystery, Berlitz cites reports of strangely spinning compasses and unexplained electrical failures aboard ships and planes crossing the triangle. He also talks...
Sadat said that "one of the Arab leaders"-by general agreement among Middle East specialists that could be Sadat's acerbic critic, Muammar Gaddafi of Libya-"had the idea to torpedo the QE2. He tried to use one of my submarines and had issued the order already...
Jacques Yves Cousteau, the famed French underwater pioneer, is aghast at the result. "I'd do anything to torpedo that conference," he says. "Caracas offered a unique opportunity, an opportunity to use the seas as a link between all nations in the interests of peace." Instead, he finds, "the conference is returning to the Middle Ages, to policies of egotistical nationalism, with every country yanking at the bedclothes and the hell with the others. It's tragic...