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...Salvador, six to ten gunmen leaped out of a pickup truck and opened fire on diners enjoying an evening meal at four adjoining sidewalk cafes on a downtown street. Killed: four off-duty U.S. Marine guards from the nearby American embassy, two American businessmen, five Salvadorans, a Chilean and a Guatemalan. At least 15 people were injured. Witnesses said the gunmen, disguised as Salvadoran army regulars, concentrated their fire on the Marines and even hunted one down in a back room. The killers are presumed to be Marxist rebels, turning to urban terrorism because their guerrilla war in the jungles...
...group of 40 Americans to which Toga suddenly belonged was both ordinary and exemplary. All were men who ranged in age from early 20s to mid-60s. Aside from the three crew members, the group included an architect, a travel agent, a retired truck driver, a real estate developer and two priests. One man owned a sports-car dealership, another a business called Window Covers to Go. Three were returning from their honeymoons; others were going home to family reunions or graduations. If the passengers from Flight 847 had anything in common, it was probably a gnawing feeling shared...
...real patriot." One day in 1979 he persuaded Debbie Aiken, then a talk-show host for a Norfolk radio station, into letting him discuss the Ku Klux Klan on her program. He claimed to be the Klan's state organizer. "He drove up to the station in a pickup truck with bodyguards," she recalls. One carried a shotgun. "Walker told me he had to be protected, that he feared for his life at all times. It was more than a little strange." After Barbara Walker's tip, the FBI secured court permits to tap Walker's telephones...
...aircraft factory during the 1970s, would wear sticky-soled shoes to pick up metal filings. When the U.S. sent young scholars to Moscow to study Slavic languages, the Soviets exchanged "graduate students" who were often middle-age technocrats with a more than academic interest in microcircuitry. A huge truck factory built in the Soviet Kama region with U.S. financing and know-how, all acquired aboveboard, was put to work making the army transports that now convoy Soviet troops over the Afghanistan countryside. Far worse, grinding machines that can craft tiny ballbearings, legally sold to the Soviets by a small Vermont...
...next day we get to interrogate the suspects. They are played by a bunch of writers like Westlake and some people on the hotel staff. In between the interrogations, the writers talk to us. Now a guy like myself didn't just fall off the turnip truck. I mean, I caught on right away they were hawking their books. I liked some of it, though. For instance, Martin Cruz Smith, the guy that wrote Gorky Park, was asked whether the movie Gorky Park followed the book, and Smith said, "Yeah, like a mugger follows a victim." I liked that...