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Thomas N'Kono
N'Kono training with Espanyol (GK coach)
|Personal information
|Date of birth
|20 July 1956
|Place of birth
|Dizangue, Cameroon
|1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
|Playing position
|Youth career
|Éclair Douala
|Senior career*
|Canon Yaoundé
|Tonnerre Yaoundé
|Canon Yaoundé
|Club Bolívar
|National team
|Teams managed
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
Thomas 'Tommy' N'Kono (born 20 July 1956) is a Cameroonian retired footballer.
Arguably the greatest goalkeeper Africa has ever produced, he is mainly associated to Espanyol, whom he represented for almost a decade appearing in more than 300 official games.[1]
N'Kono appeared for the Cameroonian national team in three World Cups, and four Africa Cup of Nations tournaments.
Club career[edit]
N'Kono was born in Dizangue. After playing in his country with Canon Yaoundé and Tonnerre Yaoundé he moved to Spain with RCD Español in 1982, after solid performances in the FIFA World Cup played in that country. He received the France Football African Footballer of the Year award in that year, and also in 1979.
With the Catalans N'Kono hardly ever missed a game, going on to amass more than 300 official appearances. In the 1988–89 season, however, he was not able to help prevent the club's La Liga relegation and, by the time it returned to the top division, he was already second-choice to younger Vicente Biurrun.
N'Kono would play three more years in Spain, incidentally also in Catalonia, with CE Sabadell FC (second level) and CE L'Hospitalet.[2] He retired already in his 40's with Club Bolívar from Bolivia, and subsequently returned to his main club as a goalkeeping coach, helping develop young talent and countryman Carlos Kameni.[3][4]
International career[edit]
A Cameroonian international for almost two decades, N'Kono played in three World Cups: 1982, 1990 and 1994. In the first two he was the undisputed starter, as the nation went out in the group stage without losing a match and valliantly exited in the quarter-final against England, respectively; in the very last minute of the 1994 edition's preparations, the 39-year-old was called as backup to Joseph-Antoine Bell, and did not play.
N'Kono, who was the national side's goalkeepers coach, also worked briefly as interim manager after German Otto Pfister resigned in protest.[5] The following month, as Paul Le Guen took the reins of the team, he was reset in his old post.[6]
In 2002, N'Kono was arrested by riot police for allegedly using "black magic", prior to the African Cup of Nations semi-final against Mali (3–0 win). He was dragged onto the running track after stepping onto the pitch at the 26 March Stadium, alongside coach Winfried Schäfer,[7] and eventually received a one-year ban,[8] which was then lifted, although he was not allowed to sit on the bench for the final.[9] There was speculation that an object found in his pocket was a black-magic charm aimed at helping Cameroon's cause.
Personal life[edit]
Italian footballer Gianluigi Buffon, also a goalkeeper, declared he decided to play in that position after seeing N'Kono's performances at the 1990 World Cup. In addition, he named his son Thomas in the Cameroonian's honour.[10]
- Canon Yaoundé
- Español
- Bolívar
- Africa Cup of Nations: 1984;[16] Runner-up 1986[17]
- African Player of the Year: 1979, 1982[18]
- ^ Espanyol archives; Hall of Fame Perico, 21 May 2009 (Spanish)
- ^ "N'Kono: "Estoy preparado para jugar el Mundial"" [N'Kono: "I am ready to play the World Cup"] (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. 30 January 1994. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
- ^ Kameni keeps Espanyol clean; BBC Sport, 27 December 2004
- ^ "De la Peña anuncia el final de su carrera profesional" [De la Peña announces end of professional career] (in Spanish). El Mundo. 19 May 2011. Retrieved 13 December 2011.
- ^ Nkono is Cameroon caretaker; BBC Sport, 2 June 2009
- ^ Cameroun: Paul Le Guen garde Thomas Nkono comme entraîneur des gardiens (Cameroon: Paul Le Guen keeps Thomas Nkono as goalkeepers coach) (French)
- ^ Nkono in 'black magic' claim; BBC Sport, 7 February 2002
- ^ Nkono gets one-year ban; BBC Sport, 9 February 2002
- ^ Nkono ban lifted; BBC Sport, 16 April 2002
- ^ «Difficile de garder notre titre» («Hard to defend our title»); Sport24, 14 June 2010 (French)
- ^ "Cameroon – List of Champions". RSSSF. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
- ^ "African Club Competitions 1978". RSSSF. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
- ^ "African Club Competitions 1980". RSSSF. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
- ^ "Leverkusen 3–0 Espanyol". UEFA.com. 18 May 1988. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
- ^ "N'Kono y sus vivencias en Bolivia, donde es un héroe con récord" [N'Kono and his experiences in Bolivia, where he is a heroe with a record] (in Spanish). Diario AS. 21 May 2016. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
- ^ "African Nations Cup 1984". RSSSF. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
- ^ "African Nations Cup 1986". RSSSF. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
- ^ "African Player of the Year". RSSSF. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
External links[edit]
- Stats at Liga de Fútbol Profesional (Spanish)
- Thomas N'Kono profile at BDFutbol
- Thomas N'Kono at National-Football-Teams.com
- Thomas N'Kono – FIFA competition record
- Biography at CamLions (French)
- Worldfootball profile
- 1956 births
- Living people
- People from Littoral Region (Cameroon)
- Cameroonian footballers
- Association football goalkeepers
- Canon Yaoundé players
- Tonnerre Yaoundé players
- La Liga players
- Segunda División players
- RCD Espanyol footballers
- CE Sabadell footballers
- CE L'Hospitalet players
- Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano players
- Club Bolívar players
- Cameroon international footballers
- 1982 FIFA World Cup players
- 1990 FIFA World Cup players
- 1994 FIFA World Cup players
- 1982 African Cup of Nations players
- 1984 African Cup of Nations players
- 1986 African Cup of Nations players
- 1990 African Cup of Nations players
- Africa Cup of Nations-winning players
- Cameroonian expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in Spain
- Expatriate footballers in Bolivia
- Cameroonian expatriates in Spain
- Cameroon national football team managers
- African Footballer of the Year winners
- FIFA Century Club


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I also use it for contouring with powder blush and bronzer, the pointed shape is excellent for that purpose, and the hair brush is firm yet has a soft feel on the skin. Also love that it is taklon, not animal hair, and it does not shed at all. Always shop cruelty-free! Date published: 2014-06-04 Rated 3 out of 5 by nobody from brush too fat I found that I'm wasting my foundation when ever I use this brush. It's too fat and absorb too much product in the middle. If you can find other use for it then good, because the brush is soft and good quality! Date published: 2014-02-28 Rated 5 out of 5 by PiaLovesMakeup from Flawless smooth foundation application I had been using the essential line foundation brush for past 3 years but that was leaving streak marks on my face which I had to blend out a lot with a sponge or tissue.This Studio brush is excellent, uniquely shaped & leaves no streak marks You can apply with decent precision in tight corners. It of course does eat up a little product as it is a luscious brush. It is very soft as well. No bristle fallout in 3 months of use.Just clean with the daily brush cleanser every week and with a shampoo every 2 weeks. Love this & will definitely repurchase! Date published: 2014-02-16 Rated 4 out of 5 by Celine from Soft with nice shape- Bought this and am happy with it, especially for the price. The only con I find is that some of the brush sizes seem small- I feel this should be a tad larger but for the price it's great. Soft, looks great and for me will be multi-use Date published: 2013-12-12 Rated 5 out of 5 by natb from love the flawless finish i get I bought this online with their half price sale and I was nervous bc I am nervous about some of their brushes. But i needed a foundation brush and I am mad bc i only got one. i love this brush, it is great for application, firm enough but also soft. the pointed is good for around the eyes and hair regions. Date published: 2013-11-09 Rated 3 out of 5 by Frannie from meh With this brush, I get the feeling that I'm wasting some of my foundation with how much it holds onto in the middle. Also, it takes me more time to use it then I would with a flatter foundation brush. I prefer using it to help blend out my under eye concealer. Date published: 2013-10-12 Rated 5 out of 5 by Vicki from Absolutely love it!!! I bought a whole bunch of E.L.F brushes online and really didn't expect this one to be my favorite. This brush is perfect for applying liquid foundation with precision. I also love that I can get a natural look, using this brush - makeup doesn't look cakey at all! I will definitely continue using this brush every day. I almost bought a similar brush for over 45.00$. I am SO glad I found this one. Great value, great price!!! Date published: 2013-08-06 Rated 5 out of 5 by myst from AAAAmazing! i own 8 different foundation brushes, all expensive and this is the best one I have found. purchased it because i thought why not at this price and i love love love it. great with the liquid foundation. great for contouring around eyes and nose creases. feels expensive. its my go to brush now. get this if youre thinking about it, its my fav. Date published: 2013-07-29 Rated 3 out of 5 by CatWoman from Like it This brush is better for contouring since the bristles are soft and tapered at the end. I did not find this effective for foundation as it takes a long time to complete application but over all its a great bargain and the quality is great for the price you pay. Date published: 2013-07-13 Rated 5 out of 5 by B from Must have! Omg! This brush is amazing! I use it with a liquid foundation and the result is beautiful. Easy to use, great with applying and blending evenly. No streaks or whatsoever. I only use blending sponge for my foundation but this brush will change that routine! Definitely a must have! Date published: 2013-07-11 Rated 5 out of 5 by LoveCiaraRenee from Great Product... easier than I thought! I use this brush when I am applying my BB Cream and/or liquid foundation.. works great!! BEST ADVICE TO EVERYONE: WATCH THE ELF TUTORIALS FOR EACH AND EVERY PRODUCT IF THEY HAVE IT!!! OMG.. TURNED OUT GREAT FOR ME! THEY REALLY HELPED!! It was great with my Granier BB Cream and the ELF Studio Acne Fighting Foundation. I put it on the opposite side of my palm/ the top part of my hand and really got the to section saturated w/ the product in circles and applied it to my face. It was like creating a painting if that makes sense! Only thing its not a simple sinch cleaning it, if you really want to get a deep down clean, open up the center and fan it out.. you'll still see the makeup in there.. so just repeat it as much as possible til its all gone if you are really picky. Hope this helps!! Date published: 2013-06-14 Rated 5 out of 5 by ldypynk from Great for liquid fondation I love this brush. It does the job well. Sometimes it leaves a little bit of streaks but that's forgivable. A must have brush if you use liquid foundation! Date published: 2018-01-13 Rated 5 out of 5 by Zoe from Best Foundation Brush Ever!! This is the BEST brush I own! Seriously!!! It's dense, it's soft, it's awesome. Absolutely perfect for foundation! The pointed tip is great for going around the eyes. Sometimes I even use it to blend out my concealer. It's great in so many ways!! Date published: 2013-02-28 Rated 5 out of 5 by jessthegirl from loveeee Love this brush! Use it everyday! Only downfall is the bristles fall out real bad...BUT, that is maybe because I use it everyday and clean it everyday. Lol DO NOT HESITATE TO BUY THIS ONE! Date published: 2013-02-25 Rated 5 out of 5 by alyssa from love! I use this brush to conceal beneath my eyes and around my nose. it's perfect for getting into the creases!! the bristles are soft and shaped perfectly Date published: 2013-02-17 Pointed Foundation Brush Reviews - page 3 2016-07-25T08:04CST bvseo_cps, prod_bvrr, vn_cps_3.3.0 cp_2, bvpage2n co_hasreviews, tv_0, tr_48 loc_en_US, sid_4134, PRD, sort_mostRecent clientName_elfcosmetics


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Honorable Dillon capped off a remarkable Saturday for his sire Tapit with a thrilling win in the Grade 2 Hutcheson S. at Gulfstream Park, taking the $190,000 contest for 3-year-olds by a half-length.
Honorable Dillon was one of three graded stakes winners on the day by her sire, along with Flashback in the Grade 2 Robert Lewis S. at Santa Anita and Tapicat in the Grade 3 Florida Oaks at Tampa Bay Downs.
Tapit entered the day ranked fourth on the 2013 General Sire list and will almost certainly sit atop the standings after Saturday's racing is completed.
Making his first stakes start in the seven furlong Hutcheson, Honorable Dillon stalked the early pace set by Singanothersong and pressed by Undrafted along the backstretch. When the pacesetter tired on the far turn, Undrafted and Honorable Dillon locked up for a spirited stretch duel.
Honorable Dillon edged away from Undrafted in deep stretch then held off the 9-5 favorite Forty Tales to get the trip in a quick 1:22.53.
"It set up good. I thought he'd relax behind the pace. I thought there'd be some speed in the race, and there was. He relaxed beautifully and stalked on the outside and really dug in," winning trainer Eddie Kenneally said. "He was a little green and was on the wrong lead in the stretch, but he gutted it out. He's determined. He's a nice horse."
Kenneally said he'd talk with the owner to come up with a plan for Honorable Dillon's next start.
"It's a shame that these Grade 2 stakes aren't getting any points for the Kentucky Derby. I think it's wrong. We may try (to stretch him out). We'd like to try at some point," Kenneally said. "He's bred to go farther than seven eighths of a mile. Can he do it? We'll find out when we try."
Kenneally said the seven-furlong Swale (Grade 3, March 2 at Gulfstream) is a definite possibility.
Owned by Joseph Bucci, Honorable Dillon is now 2-1-1 in four starts and has bankrolled $155,570. The gray or roan colt was a $100,000 purchase by Kenneally, as agent, out of the 2012 Fasig-Tipton March Florida 2-year-olds in training sale.
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PART ONE1Flight 451 left Miami International Airport at two-fifty in the afternoon. On time. It was Tuesday, October 13. The weather was warm, in the high eighties, under clear blue skies with a gentle wind from the southeast. Signs were posted here and there throughout the busy airport warning that it was a federal offense even to joke about air disasters or hijackings. But it had been months since any incident had happened anywhere in the world, and even longer for Miami, so there was only a simple, relaxed watchfulness among the security people.By three the DC-10 had climbed out over the Florida peninsula, the sun glinting on its silvery tail and wings, the cocktail cart beginning to move up the long aisle.There were only ten persons in first class, among them two Mexican government employees returning from vacation; a professor of languages from the University of Mexico who had come to Miami to attend a conference on ancient cultures; three businessmen from AT&T (one of them of Mexican descent) on their way to talk some sense into the Mexican minister of communications about joint funding of a new satellite that would improve telephoneservice between the two countries; and two American couples on their way to Mexico City on assignment with the U.S. Agency for International Development, which had gotten a new start six months earlier.They were served by two stews. One of them, Maria Gonzales, a pretty young girl from La Paz, clearly remembered the American couples because they seemed to be in such high spirits. They joked and laughed across the aisle with each other. And Senor Arthur Jules, the older of the two men, tall, husky, balding, was telling the most outrageous jokes about American-Mexican relations, which even the somewhat taciturn language professor seemed to find amusing.No, she had not actually been close enough at any time to hear exactly what was being said by Senor Jules (he and his wife, Bernice, were seated in 3A and 3B), or by the other AID employee, Ted Asher (he and his wife, Janice, were seated across the aisle in 3C and 3D), but overall her impression of the two American couples was that they seemed pleasant, very aware, and apparently genuinely interested not only in each other, but in the other passengers in first class, especially the Mexican gentlemen.Had she any idea why the two Americans in first class had been singled out by the hijackers? She would not even venture an opinion. The very same question was, of course, also asked of the other passengers, most of whom had not even the slightest awareness of the goings-on in first class.There were three couples from Des Moines, Iowa, who had been vacationing together for the past four days in Miami and Key West, and were on their way to Mexico City on a lark. They had never done anything like this in their entire lives. Howard S.Morgan, the farm implement dealer in Saylorville (a suburb to the north of Des Moines) had come up with the idea in a bar in Key West the night before. They knew nothing about the happenings in first-class. None of them had ever gone first class in their lives and had no interest in ever doing so, but they all saw the killing.Marjory Dillard, a woman from Duluth on her way to see her son in Mexico City, sat one row behind and across the aisle from one of the hijackers. Throughout the first part of the incident, she had been busy taking photographs with her Instamatic. The flash unit on the camera did not work, but technicians were able to produce images from the film nevertheless, which proved to be of inestimable value. She never gave first class a thought, and later she was so frightened that one of the two men who had taken over the aircraft would find out what she had done and kill her that everything seemed to pass her by in a blur.Donna Anderson, just forward of the smoking section, who also saw the killing, was traveling with her two young children on the second leg of her trip to Acapulco, where her estranged husband was said to be living on company funds he had stolen. She was going to him, with the children, in an effort to make him see the light of day and return home to Tallahassee with her. The company was willing to forgive, if not forget, should he return of his own accord and promise to make restitution. Throughout most of the hijacking she was so concerned about the safety of her children that she, too, had little or no awareness of anything or anyone outside her own personal sphere.Of the others, all of them were naturally aware that they had been hijacked, but only half of themactually saw the shooting take place twenty-five yards from the plane on the runway outside Havana.By four that afternoon, while flight 451 was still fifteen minutes away from landing at Havana, the FBI Miami office had secured the passenger and crew list from the airline (via computer) and had immediately transmitted the list to its headquarters and archives in Washington, D.C. Who aboard the hijacked aircraft could be the hijacker ... or hijackers (it still was not known how many were involved)?A scant fourteen minutes later, as the DC-10 was on its final approach, the passenger list had made its way from FBI Headquarters in the J. Edgar Hoover Building to the State Department on 21st and C streets. This transfer of information was done for two reasons. First, many of the passengers aboard the Aeromexico flight were foreign nationals: did State have anything on any of them? Second, two of the American passengers, Arthur David Jules and Theodore Alvin Asher, were employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development, a State Department operation.Both men's names were flagged in State's computer. It was true, in a technical sense, that they worked for AID: But that simply was their cover. In actuality both Jules and Asher were field operatives for the Central Intelligence Agency.During those first few critical moments it very nearly leaked that the two Americans were undercover. However a bright supervisor of some years experience at State, whose name was never mentioned on any report, picked up the telephone and called his friend Robert LeGrande, chief of the Western Hemisphere Division of Operations at Langley, to advise him that a couple of "friends" were involved as passengers in a hijacking. Even asthey spoke, the State Department supervisor was deleting the flags from the operatives' names, assuring their anonymity at least for the moment. State would continue to make all the appropriate noises as if the two were in fact AID employees, but the CIA would take their debriefing in hand if and when they were returned, which of course never happened because they were murdered.Stewart Burger, a junior AID official working out of the Miami office, was immediately dispatched to the airport to take charge of Bernice Jules and Janice Asher. He knew nothing other than that they were the wives of the two murdered AID employees, although Albert Thompson, a CIA operations man who happened to be in Atlanta that afternoon, was flown by military jet to Miami where he tagged along, unobtrusively, to ensure nothing was said by either woman.By early evening of that same day, a special investigative unit of the FBI was set up under the direction of John Lyman Trotter, Jr., who was acting assistant director of the bureau's Special Investigative Division. Trotter was a fairly rare breed in that he not only had the slick political savvy necessary for survival in Washington, but he had genuine talent as well, though over the past few years he had found himself bending his own principles with increasing frequency in order to satisfy an insatiable bureaucracy. He was tall and thin (almost cadaverous), and anything but good-looking, behind thick, wire-rimmed glasses perched atop a huge, misshapen nose. By way of compensation for his looks he had very early on become good at what he did ... which was finding out things that had to be found out. His wife, who had killed herself three years ago (or so the rumor went) had done so because she could not bear the strain of living with such a highly chargedman. He literally drove her crazy, which in some odd, perverse way, had increased his reputation as a power in Washington; as a man with such a devout, all-consuming singleness of purpose that not even his private life came before his work.Trotter drove immediately from his home in Arlington to his office, where he began gathering his staff, who in turn began feeding him the first bits and pieces, just as they came in."Don't worry about analysis, or any sort of sophistication. I want, I need, details. Now!"The media had gotten on to the business, of course, and already the networks were not only reporting the hijacking and the mysterious killing of two Americans, they were all trying to analyze what this meant in terms of the very complex U.S. relationship with Cuba.Trotter was of no mind for such nonsense. He had begun his investigative career some years ago in the CIA, transferring to the bureau during the shake-up in the Carter years, when pragmatism was a dirty word. He had a very good idea, early on, that Jules and Asher could very well be Company men using AID as their cover. Two telephone calls to the State Department, including one to a very angry under secretary, produced the grudging admission that Jules and Asher may have been more than anyone was being told. A third call, this one to Lawrence Danielle, deputy director of operations at Langley, verified the fact that Jules and Asher were indeed Company operatives who had been on their way to Mexico City where they were to have taken up AID posts at the embassy."Is there a connection between their identities and their murders?" Trotter asked. "I just want to know that much, Larry, because it looks goddamned suspicious to me.""We're working on it, John, believe me. Donald has got this place secured like a fortress. We're at war here. Can you understand that?" Danielle said it as if he were out of breath."Apparently the Cubans themselves shot them down right on the runway. Them, as well as the hijackers. What the hell was going on down there?""We had no indications, I assure you. Otherwise we would have made different arrangements to get them to Mexico City."Trotter sighed deeply. "I'm taking charge of this investigation from here. Personal charge. You and I will have to liaise on this.""Don't go charging off in all directions. Donald is going to want to talk to you," Danielle said hastily. Until Donald Suthland Powers had been appointed director of Central Intelligence by the president, Danielle had been acting director. There was universal agreement in Washington (in itself a rare thing) that Powers was the right man for the job at the right time. Things were getting done."We'll have to set up a common ground," Trotter said."It'll be on your turf. We have to keep the investigation out of our corner. At least for the time being," Danielle said. "I'll talk to Donald now."The anonymous little man from across the river showed up that night. He was given clearance and a security badge, over Trotter's signature, and the nonpublicized collaboration between the FBI and the CIA began its intense, eight-day run. Trotter was in charge, with the help of his "expert," as Danielle came to be known, and if anyone could produce results it would be such a team. Within the first twenty-four hours they had brought together most of the facts, leaving the refinements and their ramifications to be worked out on the run.
In one sense, the hijacking could not have happened at a more propitious time for the United States. We had bungled the Bay of Pigs business in the sixties; we had muffed the rescue of our POWs from the hellish prison camp outside Hanoi in the seventies; and of course the Iranian hostage situation was still painfully fresh in everyone's minds. But America was on the road back. The Reagan administration had taken a hard-line stand with a hostile world. Had the Iranians grabbed our embassy in 1985, the hostages would have been freed within twenty-four hours; probably over a lot of dead bodies, but freed nevertheless. We were beginning to stand tall, and this incident seemed tailor-made to show our new strength of purpose. In another, larger sense, however (certainly no one could have predicted this), the hijacking ultimately resulted in arguably the most sinister and certainly most tragic of consequences.The actual hijacking itself was an incident whose moment-by-moment details few of the passengers seemed able to agree upon. The consensus collated from the testimony of everyone on board did, however, allow investigators to come to a number of generalized conclusions and quite a few reasonable assumptions.It went smoothly. All seemed to agree on at least that singular fact."We didn't really know anything was happening, at first," and variations on that theme were quite common statements.The woman with the Instamatic shot one frame of the hijacker who had been seated near her. It showed him with a large, ugly-looking automatic in his left hand. Analysts later were able to identify thegun as a Graz Buyra, the KGB's weapon of assassination. But it was eight days before they realized how the two hijackers got their weapons on board, information which was, of course, never made public. An Aeromexico employee, Manuel Garcia Lopez, had brought the guns onto the aircraft the day before, while it was down for maintenance in Mexico City, stashing them in the waste paper-disposal compartment in the aft, port-side head. Lopez was never apprehended. It was believed he made his way to Cuba the very evening of the hijacking.The most serious conclusion, at least in the early days, was that the two hijackers had had help. Organization. Backing. Planning. One of them had been tentatively identified (from the woman's photographs) as Eduardo Cristobal Valejo, a small-time hood who had overseen a wide variety of illicit transactions out of Mexico City ... anything from smuggling a few grams of cocaine to an occasional truckload of marijuana across the border at Piedras Negras into Texas. This hijacking was too big for him to have planned it. And how did a small-time hoodlum come to possess a Soviet assassination device in the first place? The other man was never identified. The woman's photographs of him were unclear and showed only the back of his head. Nor were the Ident-a-kit drawings made from descriptions by the crew of any help. So, for a time before the investigation began to be overshadowed by other, larger concerns, the second hijacker came to be known simply as the mystery man, a title that perhaps did him too much justice, for almost certainly he, too, was a small-time hood and not some international terrorist.The actual time of the hijacking was one of the few facts that was nailed down solidly. At exactly 3:23 P.M., when flight 451 had flown nearly a hundredmiles out over the Gulf of Mexico off Florida's west coast, the two hijackers (who had already retrieved their weapons) got to their feet.Valejo, seated near the rear of the plane, walked to the aft galley where he showed his automatic to the two stews there, telling them the flight would be diverted to Havana. There was no noise, no fuss or bother, and none of the passengers, at that point, suspected anything untoward was happening.At the very same moment, the second hijacker, the mystery man, got up from his seat, moved carefully through the first-class section, and opened the door onto the flight deck. The door had been left unlocked in flight, contrary to regulation. He closed and properly locked the door, pulled out his weapon, and announced in clear English but with a Mexican accent that this plane was being taken over and would head immediately for Havana's José Marti International Airport.In the retelling the crew on the flight deck were quite clear and concise. They were professionals, trained for such an eventuality, so that at no time did they attempt to do anything that would create any further danger. They treated the hijacker with the utmost respect and regard, they told investigators.Captain Vincent May (the only non-Mexican member of the crew) immediately radioed Miami Flight Control, advising them that they had been hijacked and were being diverted to Havana. No mention was made of a bomb, or of weapons, or of the number of hijackers on board. The Miami controller who took the call turned all his flights over to other controllers so that he was free to handle only this flight ... standard operating procedure. His supervisor immediately telephoned Havana Air Traffic Control to advise them of the incoming hijacked flight,and then in quick order he telephoned the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Miami, the Mexican Air Control Authority, the Aeromexico representatives at both airports, and finally Miami International Airport security.The subsequent events seemed to gather their own terrible momentum. At the very same moment that Lawrence Danielle marched up to the seventh floor to inform the DCI of the event, flight 451 rolled to a stop on the far side of the terminal at José Marti International Airport. Within seconds the plane was surrounded by a dozen military vehicles from which emerged more than a hundred soldiers and civil police officers, all armed, all at the ready.It was like a dream after that, Maria Gonzales, the first-class stew, told investigators. The forward hatch of the aircraft was opened, boarding stairs brought up, and she clearly remembered the thick, damp odors of the warm, tropical day, intermingled with the harsher odor of burnt jet fuel. The hijacker who had stationed himself in the aft galley hurried forward, the big automatic in his left hand raised so that everyone would be sure to see it and therefore try nothing silly. He was met in the first-class compartment by the hijacker who had issued the orders from the flight deck.There was a bit of confusion at this point. Maria Gonzales told investigators that the hijacker who had been aft pointed his gun at the two Americans--Senors Jules and Asher--and motioned for them to get to their feet, which they did without a fuss. Janice Asher, who had been hysterical all through the incident, nevertheless gave her version in which her husband had leaped up in an attempt to disarm the hijacker, who struck her husband in the head with the weapon. Asher had to be helped off the aircraft. Bernice Jules, on the other hand, told authoritiesthat the hijacker who had emerged from the flight deck had pointed his gun directly at her, right between her eyes from a distance of less than fifteen feet, and motioned for her husband to get to his feet, which he naturally did. She could not remember if Ted Asher had gotten up or not. Of course, he had to have, because he was shot down on the tarmac.From that point on, the consensus from the passengers and crew was that the two hijackers and the two Americans got off the plane, started away, and at some point one or all of them were seen making a dash for one of the civilian cars that had pulled up, followed by several seconds of intense gunfire in which all four were killed.It sounded like corn popping in another room, Marjory Dillard said. She did not actually see the shooting, but those passengers on the port side of the aircraft who were able to witness the terrifying event recoiled in horror. About that she was quite clear.Within the hour the bodies had been taken away in four ambulances, and the Cuban authorities came aboard to begin their preliminary questioning. The wives of the two slain Americans went crazy. They wanted to be with their husbands. The crew only got them calmed down after a long time, Maria Gonzales said. She and first officer Hernando Prañdo managed to administer Valium from the aircraft's first aid locker, and when they got back to the States the next day they were placed in Miami's Mt. Sinai Hospital. The following day they were flown to George Washington University Hospital, and by that evening they were home with their families: Bernice in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and Janice in Georgetown, away from the press so that an agency psychologist, Charles Ruff, could have the time and the privacy for a proper debriefing.Each of the other passengers was questioned by the authorities through the following two days. They all stayed at the Miami Airport Hilton at Aeromexico's expense but under FBI supervision.Everyone agreed that the Cuban authorities had treated them with the utmost kindness and understanding during their twenty-four-hour stay at a nearby hotel. The questions were routine, the food passable, and their hosts polite.Now back in Miami, the DC-10 was literally stripped in an effort to find out how the weapons were brought on board. The crew was thoroughly questioned, and in Washington files on every single person aboard (so far as such files were available) were gone through with a fine-toothed comb. It wasn't until the beginning of the second week, however, that it was discovered how Manuel Lopez, the Aeromexico maintenance employee, had brought the weapons onto the plane. But by then he was long gone. It was theorized that the very evening of the hijacking he had made his way to Cuba. Someone thought they recognized him in Havana, but it was another dead end. One of many for Trotter's team, such as the origin of the Soviet assassination devices both men carried.By this time the hijacking was old news. Mines had been placed in the Strait of Hormuz, the Israelis were talking seriously about going back into Lebanon to stop, once and for all, terrorist strikes on their settlements. And there were new rounds of talks with the Russians about the Star Wars defensive measures which Reagan was asking Congress to support with billions in research funds.Through all of this Trotter became a very dissatisfied man. He did not like loose ends, and although he was forced by the press of other important business to order most of his investigative team tostand down from the hijacking and to spend more and more of his own time on an ever-increasing work load, hardly an hour went by when he did not give serious thought to Lawrence Danielle and what his old friend had not told him. Jules and Asher were agency operatives on their way to assignment in Mexico City. That much Danielle would verify. But beyond that there was nothing as to the nature of their assignment, or if they were killed because of it. Trotter was enough of an old hand to know when to stand down, when not to poke his nose into areas closed to the bureau, but it galled him nevertheless that he had been used to take all the heat away from Langley. His career hadn't really suffered for not having brought the hijackers' real motives to light, but there was a blemish on his record. And if there was anything Trotter despised, it was lack of precision.
The last of the hijacking business, at least as far as concerned the bureau, came late on Friday, November 15, a full thirty-three days after the hijacking, in the form of a meeting of the minds, in a manner of speaking. It was a meeting that nevertheless was on an informal basis and was therefore never recorded. Lawrence Danielle, who had become quite aloof from the FBI's investigation after the first few days' flush of information and speculation, showed up at the Alexandria home of an angry Trotter who was willing, able, and just about ready to bring pressure to bear on the agency through Justice Department channels."I resent being toyed with like this, Lawrence," he cried at the beginning. "You of all people surely understand that to be a policeman ... an effective policeman ... one needs adequate information. No source must be sacred."It had been a rather constant theme of his, almost from the first, when he began to realize that there was more to this business than met the eye. (Actually from the moment the woman's photographs had revealed the type of weapons the hijackers carried.)A Mahler symphony was playing softly on the stereo in the large, pleasant living room. Trotter had fixed them each a drink, and they sat by the fireplace. It was nearing Thanksgiving and was quite chilly. Danielle had thrown his overcoat carelessly over the back of a chair and had taken up a position on a corner of the couch. His actions and manner were irritating just then."There's nothing we can do, publicly, that would help us," Danielle began. His voice was soft. Hoarse. He sounded worn out. "In fact there are certain ... shall we say, delicate matters on the burner now.""Christ, their shooters were signatures chiseled in stone on the cave walls for the entire world to see," Trotter shouted. His blood pressure was rising. He could feel it. His face was flushed. "Someone is bound to make the connection.""That is certainly possible," Danielle said."Then what do you expect of me?" Trotter said. Much later he recalled that at that moment he felt as if he were rushing headlong down a narrow, darkly blind alley. At the far end was danger. He knew it. Could feel it. Yet he could not stop himself."We don't expect anything more of you than what you've already done, John. Just your very best effort. It is appreciated."Trotter rolled his eyes. He could not believe his old friend had said that. "Save that for the virgins. Just save it for the kids."Danielle, who at fifty-five was ten years Trotter's senior, sat forward, his drink cradled in his small, delicate hands. "The agency is out of this investigation as of now.""I'm left holding the bag. Is that what you've come all the way out here to tell me?""Let this business run its natural course--""Unnatural, if you ask me," Trotter interrupted."The hijackers are dead, the maintenance man who supplied the weapons is gone, and the two fine Americans killed in the heat of the moment have been buried. Passions were high. Havana has apologized. Leave it at that.""State is pressing.""Let them press, John. It will pass.""Herbert Danson was by today, actually came by my office, sat me down like a schoolchild, and gave me my ABCs." It still rankled. "The New York Times is pressing them for more information. It somehow leaked that there were photographs."Apparently unperturbed by this news, Danielle nodded. "I know," he said. "Donald asked me to stop by tonight to have a little chat with you."This was the payoff then, Trotter thought. They were bloody well trying to buy him off. Christ. "Then have your chat and get the hell out of here."Danielle looked genuinely pained."I have an investigation petering out here with holes in it large enough for a Mack truck. Meanwhile, you sit over there in your palace with all the answers. At least point me in the right direction."Danielle nodded sadly, finished his drink, and set the glass down."Another?" Trotter asked, but Danielle shook his head. He seemed to be weighing his words with care."Norma will have dinner waiting." He stood up and got his overcoat.Trotter got to his feet. He felt very frustrated, yet here was an old friend whom he had wounded. "Listen, Larry, I'm sorry."Danielle waved off the apology. "No need for that, John, I understand. Believe me, I do."Trotter nodded.Danielle was staring at him. "If there was one question ..." he said."What?""If there was one question for which you had an answer, our very best answer mind you ... would that help?"Trotter would forever retain the impression that he was being manipulated at that moment by a man who knew exactly what he was doing and had known all along that their meeting would come exactly to this point. But he could not help himself. The offer was too tempting."They carried Soviet weapons. Where did they come from? Who supplied them with the hardware?""CESTA."The word meant nothing to Trotter, though he had a visceral feeling he knew what was coming next. "KGB?""More than that. The Soviets have their networks in the Caribbean. Banco de Sur, El Rodeo. But CESTA is more than that." Danielle spoke very slowly, precisely, each word measured carefully, a rare and precious substance to be handled with the utmost respect. "CESTA is composed of the intelligence-gathering systems of all the Warsaw Pact nations, sharing responsibilities as well as product.""Based in Mexico City."Danielle nodded."And who runs this super organization? Who is the man in charge? The brains?"At this Danielle shook his head. "That's all, John. As it is, I've overstepped my charter."The symphony on the stereo was over. The silence held an ominous note."Then let's go after them, Larry. You and I.""Stay out of it, John. As one friend to another, I'm telling you to stay clear. There'll be a lot of fallout in the months to come. The man with the clean hands and clear conscience will come out on top."Before Danielle turned and walked out of the room, Trotter suddenly realized that there was something about his old friend just then that he had never seen before. The way the older man held himself, the set of his shoulders, the hooded expression in his eyes, the tightening of his jaw. It took a moment, though, before Trotter recognized just what it was he had seen, and the effect on him was profound, deeper than any mere words could adequately describe. But forever afterward Trotter would swear that at that moment in time he had seen fear written all over the deputy director of Central Intelligence Agency operations.
That very night, Donald Suthland Powers stood alone at the window in his office on the seventh floor of the Central Intelligence Agency's Langley complex, trying to see into the future. He was short, somewhat stoop shouldered and slight of build, with a squarish, scholarly face, thick eyebrows, and absolutely the most penetrating, intelligent blue eyes that had ever peered across the DCI's desk. At fifty-six he wasn't so terribly old that he had slowed down, yet he was of the age when he could begin looking back at his youth, to a time when the futurewas a bright penny still untarnished. Since the president had appointed him DCI a year ago, his goals had seemed very clear. At least they had until this night. Terrible goals in the sense that he was a general waging a war in which casualties were being incurred, but exciting in that the endeavor was right: his president and his nation were behind him.He had spent most of his life in service to his government in one capacity or another, but never from such an awesome position of responsibility and never with such a strong, clearly defined mandate. For the first time, though, the future wasn't clear to him."Perhaps you should speak with Trotter," Danielle had suggested. "He'll stand down. He'll give us the room."Powers was frightened. He needed time. Use the considerable Powers charm, he counseled himself. The power of this office, of your experience and charisma. There would be a lot of fallout. Jules and Asher were only the first. They had been lost in the opening salvo. There would be more, many more. Could he stand it?God knew he had tried to get out of the agency after his father died. For a year in Hartford, operating the Political Action Think Tank, he had very nearly succeeded. But when the president called him back to arms, he had not been surprised or very saddened. Here was where he would wage his battles. From this very fortress was where he would expiate the sins of deadly competition, nuclear confrontation, and, on a smaller but much more intensely personal scale, the murders of Jules and Asher. They would be the cry to arms. The point around which all of them would rally.Powers had allowed himself in the years past, rising in the ranks of the agency to deputy directorof intelligence before his short-lived retirement, to play the game according to the rules: to honor the status quo. Push a little in Turkey, or Iran or Lebanon, but give a little in Afghanistan, in Poland, and in the Caribbean Basin. But it was over. The honeymoon had ended. The opening shots had been fired in a war that could no longer be denied.Kennedy had held his Cuban missile crisis. Here now was another crisis. Much subtler, perhaps, but none the less deadly for its obscurity.Powers turned away from the window. In appearance as well as in intellect, he was reminiscent of William F. Buckley, Jr., with perhaps a bit of William Colby thrown in. He listened now to the ghosts of ten thousand decisions made from this office and wondered if, indeed, he was the right man for the job."Baranov," Powers said softly, no longer able to hold the memory in check. They had done battle before, and it was said he was back in Mexico City. Back at the helm of CESTA. They said he was just an agent runner. A network man, not another Andropov, but Powers knew differently.He looked again at the window, but this time he focused on his own reflection in the glass. He looked haggard. Worn-out. His daughter Sissy told him he wasn't eating his Wheaties. But Katy Moss, his secretary, and Lawrence Danielle both knew the trouble ... or thought they did. When you're frightened, push ahead; it's the only cure. Whoever had said that never sat behind this desk, Powers decided. And through the entire season he would stop at odd moments to think back to this very evening. To the beginning.Copyright © 1989 by David Hagberg


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September 23, 2011
In this space age animated adventure, teenage Judy Jetson writes a song for teen idol pop star Sky Rocker. But somewhere along the way, the song gets mixed up with a recording from the yucky, music-hating Felonia Funk - who then kidnaps Sky! Now, Judy is ready to prove what a super fan she is, by setting out to rescue her hero with a crew of music-fan aliens called the Zoomies. ~ Cammila Collar, Rovi
- Genre: Kids and Family
- Category Sci-Fi Comedy
- Studio: Warner Bros. Digital Distribution
- Run Time: 01 hr 32 min
- Language: English
- Release Date: September 23, 2011
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- Online Item #: 13764005
- Store Item Number (DPCI): 246-07-2791
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Brighter and darker sides of a world of magicStandard
Very interesting documentary – insight into Mexican circus
When The Waiter Accidentally Spilled Drink on my DressStandard
Well that's how I started wearing dark colored dresses
It was a great day; or so I thought.
It was a Friday and as always I started it with eagerness of a kid. I like making my Friday great because I believe that if my Friday turns out good, the rest of my working week is going to be as good.
So, that Friday I woke up very optimistic. I was not going to be late for work because I woke up even before the alarm buzzed. I took my shower, dressed for work, drank my coffee and then took off for work.
At work, everything went as normal as can be. Fridays are always busy and it was alright because when you are busy, time in office flies and you eagerly wait for Friday after work party. Well I always wait for those crazy nights.
That day, my mood was really positive. I was wearing my new off-white cocktail dress. I bought it just two weeks ago as a birthday gift for myself. It was really a nice looking half-sleeved short dress and I always match my party dresses with my dark blue bag and shoes. When I looked in the mirror that morning, I was so pleased with my teenage look. I felt so proud of how my outfit matched my accessories. I looked as I intended; a young professional with a mission.
Going back to work, people also noticed my beautiful dress and commented on it. My office best friend even said that she'd try to find one like it but in pink. I told her that I'd bring her to the shop where I got it and we made a date to go shopping the next weekend.
As I mentioned above, the day went well. Lunch came and I had pizza and lasagna. Yes, I do not go on a strict diet as I have a good metabolism. No matter how much I eat, I simply do not get fat. I guess, you can say I am very lucky on that account.
As the day was about to end, we got a great news from our supervisor. We met the previous month's quota and the higher ups decided to give us nice bonus. Everyone was really ecstatic, including me. I really could use a bonus; rent due is coming and I also need to get a new phone.
As if the day couldn't be any better, pour superior also announced that she would like to invite us all to dinner to celebrate. I was about to decline as I want to be home early, but my best friend convinced me to go with them and so I did.
After work, we went to a fancy restaurant just a few blocks from our building. It was an establishment that I have never been into. It was so fancy that I thought the food would be too expensive for me to afford.
Apparently, my thoughts were wrong. The restaurant may look fancy and classy, but it offers delicious and highly affordable food selection.
For the group (there were 12 of us), our supervisor ordered starters of the house soup, Ballyhoura mushrooms, and cheese and olives. The main course was composed of rib eye steak, salmon roulade, and lobster. The dessert was mouth-watering lava cake. It was one of the best three-course meal I have ever had. The fact that it was free and was the result of all our hard work made that meal really special for all of us.
Everyone was really happy, and to prolong that magical moment (because we all couldn't seem to get enough of the day) we also ordered coffee before we all go home. It was the best cup of coffee I had.
When our boss was about to pay for the food we had, my best friend asked me to accompany her to the powder room. I was also ready to go, I need to freshen up.
As I stood up and was about to turn to go to the powder room, someone bumped into me. It was a waiter carrying a tray with two servings of red wine. And what can you expect from such a collision? Yes, the wine that was once in the glasses was suddenly all over me – all over my new pretty white dress.
I squealed in surprise and then almost cried in dismay. It was a good dress. A beautiful one. My birthday gift for myself. And then, with just a simple accident, it was ruined.
The waiter was very apologetic and much as I wanted to scream at him for ruining my top and my evening – not to mention of the possibility of ruining the rest of my week – I tried to control myself.
I knew then, that it was not the waiter's fault. I guess I was so ready to go that I did not check if someone was coming from behind me. Still though, I reasoned out that since my back was on the waiter, he should be the one who tried to avoid me and the collision.
I heard my companions saying that it was a total accident and it was neither mine or the waiter's fault. I looked at the waiter and could see that he was a young man and he was about to cry.
My dismay turned into pity. In my mind I was thinking, here is this young man (probably in college trying to earn for his studies) simply doing his job and is probably scared to hell of losing his job. And there was worrying about a dress that I could easily replace.
To calm the waiter down (because I could already see panic in his eyes as the restaurant manager talked to him) I finally spoke up. I said, it's alright, it was not the waiter's fault. I also said that he should not be punished. My companions smiled at me and approved of what I said. I felt better then.
That day, though may have ended in disaster, made me realize something significant; no matter how much you love what you are wearing, it could not be any more important than another person's well-being.
I learned another good lesson too; whites are magnets for disaster. And so, after that day, I started wearing dark colored dresses; just to be sure.
A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.


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Lenovo X1 Hybrid pictures and hands-onPocket-lint
Lenovo announced just before the start of CES that it would show off the Hybrid X1 laptop and Pocket-lint has just finished playing with the new laptop that has a spilt personality.
On the surface, the Hybrid X1 looks like any ordinary Windows PC, albeit one that is thinner than the company's usual ThinkPad range.
The specs look normal too. You'll get either an Intel Core i3, i5 or i7 chip along with a 13.1-inch Gorilla Glass display. But it's the Hybrid part of the new X1 that intrigues the most.
You see, it's not just an Intel chip packed inside, but a Qualcomm dual-core one too. The idea being that you can fire up a Linux OS using this for easy access web browsing, video watching, picture viewing, email checking and music listening.
In action and the switch happens very quickly as Windows merely goes into sleep mode rather than shutting down completely.
The benefit here of course is that you gain massively on the battery life. So much so, claim Lenovo, that you'll get double the life switching to the Qualcomm chip because you aren't having to worry about running Windows when you are doing something your computer finds mundane - like watching a movie on the plane.
When finished, you simply pressed a button and you switch back to Windows within seconds.
On the build side of things the X1 Hybrid is as good as you'll expect.
Ultimately this looks to be a very clever idea, and while the idea isn't new - HP has had a feature called QuickPlay for some time - the approach of using a phone/tablet chip to do this is, and for us that makes this a very interesting proposition, especially if it means that you'll still have enough battery to do your work and have some fun on long haul flights. But then - how quickly did people lose interest in dual boot netbooks?
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