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...gymnasium, a reading room, the administrative offices and the communications center for the battalion. It was also sleeping quarters for some 200 Marines; most were still in their cots, enjoying the luxury of Sunday, the one day of the week when they were free from reveille. Suddenly a truck, laden with dynamite, on a fanatical suicide mission crashed into the building's lobby and exploded with such force that the structure collapsed in seconds, killing or wounding most of the Marines inside. By evening the toll, still incomplete as rescuers picked through the rubble, stood at 147 dead, 60 wounded...
...attack began at exactly 6:20 a.m., when a red pickup truck approached the Beirut airport, where most of the 1,600-man Marine contingent in Lebanon is based. As the vehicle turned left into the parking lot, a Marine guard reported with alarm that it was gathering speed. Then, in a lightning move, the truck charged toward the entrance of the four-story building, hit the sandbagged guard post, burst through a barrier and vaulted another wall of sandbags into the lobby. It exploded with a deafening roar, destroying the building. Minutes later, the second blast rocked the French...
...suicide strike was carried out by a main driving a truck packed with a ton of explosives. It was the bloodiest attack against the U.S. military since Vietnam...
Typical of the young reservists is Miguel Sarria, 24, a truck mechanic from the southern city of Chichigalpa, who recently served in the border militia near the center of Ocotal. Sarria has lost two close friends to contra fire. "Nothing will stop this revolution," he says defiantly...
That night, the Auld Mug was unbolted from its pedestal at the New York Yacht Club's Manhattan mansion and taken to Newport by armored truck. Next day, at Marble House, former summer home ("cottage," in local parlance) of Harold Vanderbilt, himself an America's Cup legend, the unlovely pitcher was presented to its new owners and started the 11,620-mile trip to Perth. But first Liberty Syndicate Head Edward du Moulin gave Skipper Bertrand Liberty's dark blue burgee. Then N.Y.Y.C. Commodore Robert Stone presented Bond with "the bolt that's kept...