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...coast of Martha's Vineyard, Mass. "They've got the fuselage and John Kennedy's in it," a high-level government source said. Still unknown: the locations of Kennedy's wife, Carolyn Bessette, and her sister Lauren -- and the cause of the crash. One possible clue: CNN reported late Tuesday that mechanics had discovered -? and corrected -? a propeller problem in Kennedy's plane two years ago. Or was the crash a simple mistake by a pilot fighting poor visibility conditions...
...military power as a "paper tiger"; half a century later the gibe may be rebounding. A week of furious saber rattling ? including the announcement of neutron-bomb capability and reports that the Chinese army was on full alert ? failed to deter Taiwan?s President Lee Teng-hui on Tuesday from reiterating his policy shift away from the "One China" concept toward "state-to-state" relations with Beijing. And as if Taiwan's thumbing its nose at Asia?s mightiest military power weren?t humiliation enough for Beijing, the Philippine navy on Tuesday sank a Chinese fishing vessel in the waters...
Independence-minded Tibetans may have taken heart from signs of a credibility gap in China?s military threats, but on Tuesday they received news that could set back their struggle for decades: China announced that it had found the world?s highest oil field, 15,000 feet above sea level in the disputed territory. "China would be even less likely to consider relaxing its grip on a Tibet with oil fields," says Dowell. "This is not good news for the Dalai Lama." For most nations, striking oil is counted as a blessing; for Tibetans it may be a curse...
...that small step onto the lunar surface, the ghosts of the space race are everywhere. Foremost among them is Armstrong himself, who has hardly spoken in public since his immortal line on July 20, 1968, but who joined fellow Apollo 11 astronauts Edwin A. "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins Tuesday to receive the Langley Gold Medal for aviation from Al Gore. And as the space shuttle Columbia sits idle on the launchpad, its mission scrubbed until Friday because of persistent glitches, TIME space correspondent Jeffrey Kluger is reminded how far mighty NASA has fallen since JFK fired our imaginations with...
...disaster made the news today, dredged up for reexamination ?- Gus Grissom?s capsule has been pulled from the ocean. The capsule Liberty Bell 7, which had lain in water three miles deep since 1961, was brought to the surface by an underwater salvage team around 2:15 a.m. on Tuesday. "Kennedy promised to send a man to the moon and bring him back," says Kluger. "But he didn?t plan for anything else after that." Maybe that?s part of the reason we're so upset about the death of his son, who represented a glimmer of hope...