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...parents. When they were reunited at the end of the week the Norfolkers had nothing to say to the Press. John F. ("Jafsie") Condon, the retired schoolmaster who paid $50,000 of Col. Lindbergh's money in a Bronx cemetery to someone who said he was the kidnappers' agent but who failed to secure the infant's return, went boating in Pelham Bay, capsized, got an icy ducking, went home to recover from the shock...
...happens, the foreign agent in question--a group called the Korea- U.S. Exchange Council, funded largely by the Korean holding company Hanwha Group--lists its address as the same waterfront Georgetown office suite as Buckham's lobbying business. Edward Stewart, who not only manages international business for Buckham's Alexander Strategy Group but also is the Korean group's Washington representative, declined to comment on the controversy. Buckham, 46, did not return telephone calls and e-mails seeking an interview. The lawmakers named by the Post, including DeLay, say they were not aware that the group was a foreign agent...
...DeLay staff members--who have traded on their access to him. The Washington Post reported last week that DeLay (as well as six other Representatives from both parties and several congressional aides) had over the past four years accepted trips to South Korea, paid for by a registered foreign agent--a violation of House rules...
Just a week after U.S. troops in Iraq killed Italian agent Nicola Calipari and wounded freed hostage Giuliana Sgrena, a similar incident emerged involving another U.S. ally: Bulgaria. On the evening that the Italians were shot, U.S. troops near the Iraqi city of Diwaniya killed a Bulgarian soldier, Gurdi Gurdev, whose patrol had stopped 150 m short of a U.S. checkpoint without realizing it was there. The Bulgarians, according to a letter posted on the Web by a "combat buddy" of the deceased, fired warning shots at a civilian Iraqi vehicle that was approaching them. "The Americans didn't know...
...massive, 26-hour manhunt; in Atlanta. Nichols allegedly wrestled a gun from a sheriff's deputy at the Fulton County Courthouse and fatally shot Superior Court Judge Rowland Barnes, a stenographer and another deputy. Nichols then stole a series of cars--allegedly killing an off-duty federal customs agent in the process--before a woman tipped off police that he had been holding her hostage in her apartment...