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...fact, the innocent White House aides were protesting the wrong plans ?and by accident helping the mission's cover story. At that very moment some of the rescue unit's pilots and crews were already in Egypt, ostensibly to take part in joint air transport training exercises with Egypt and Saudi Arabia?a handy disguise for what was to come...
...transport planes carried about 90 commandos in camouflage garb and another 90 crew members. Following an undisclosed route, the small air fleet droned along as low as 150 ft. to foil Iranian radar as it approached its first staging site in the desert near the isolated village of Posht-e Badam. Other planes are reported to have helped by jamming Iranian detection systems...
...twelve, not disease, that cost Wilson his sight. Resolutely, he went on to take a degree in law and sociology at Oxford, then to aid the British war effort by placing the blind at work alongside sighted people in factories-"making shell cases and bits and pieces of transport vehicles and aircraft." After the war, at 26, Wilson was sent on a Commonwealth tour to make a survey of people blinded during the conflict. Everywhere he encountered the sightless. But it soon became evident that malnutrition and disease, not bullets and shrapnel, had cost most of them their vision...
...reset their watches every spring with an easy conscience, might protest that this proves Toffler wrong, demonstrating that nation-states, far from extinction, are likely only to multiply. Instead, Toffler says, we will soon become a world governed by "an Oceans Matrix, a Space Matrix, a Food Matrix, a Transport Matrix, an Energy Matrix, and the like, all flowing into and out of one another...
...Yorkers, one of the most adaptable breeds of urban animals, were trying their best to adjust to living without a system that they often have trouble living with. Some 5.1 million passengers a day ride the city's subways and buses, making the transportation network the nation's busiest, second in the world only to Moscow. The Big Apple's transit problems are as enormous as its workload: broken-down and obsolete equipment; rolling stock disfigured by grime and graffiti; rush-hour rib crunching; well-publicized crime ranging from muggings to people being pushed in front...