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...real question, though, is why this harder line wasn’t taken before our airmen were allowed to come home. In an incident where the Chinese pilot, not our crew, was to blame, why did the Bushies even take seriously the Chinese demand for an apology from us? Why did it seem that from day one the United States, the most powerful nation in the world, was working from a position of weakness vis-a-vis China...
...Director Freeh to move this case from this office, which would not accede to his demands as to how the case should be prosecuted." Freeh and Lewis have long battled over how to proceed in the probe of the truck bombing at the military barracks that killed 19 U.S. airmen. Sources in Lewis' camp say some in the FBI have pushed to move too aggressively, given the wispiness of the evidence. FBI officials counter that the issue was a lack of support from Lewis' office, but lawyers familiar with the case dismiss bureau complaints as a power play. Said...
...Freeh and Lewis have long battled over how to proceed in the probe of the truck bombing at the military barracks in Dharan, Saudi Arabia, which killed 19 U.S. airmen and injured dozens more. The case has languished for a host of reasons, including the Saudis' early refusal to allow American law enforcement officials to interview people suspected of having a connection to the incident. Sources in Lewis's camp say some in the FBI pressed for indictments and advocated other aggressive moves, but prosecutors have considered the evidence far too thin. FBI officials counter that the issue was never...
More than two dozen American airmen shot down over North Vietnam tell the stories of their captivity; interviewed in front of a black backdrop, they speak without a trace of swagger or even ego (unheard of in a gang of fighter pilots). The men are understated, even serene. Their stories of torture and endurance--one was imprisoned for 8 1/2 years--are intercut with newsreels and astonishing black-and-white propaganda footage that the Academy Award-winning husband-and-wife team of Freida Lee Mock and Terry Sanders found in Vietnamese archives in Hanoi...
...armed forces as "G.I.s." It got me in trouble with some of my colleagues at the time. Several years earlier, the Army had officially excised the term as an unfavorable characterization derived from the designation "government issue." Sailors and Marines wanted to be known as sailors and Marines. Airmen, notwithstanding their origins as a rib of the Army, wished to be called simply airmen. Collectively, they were blandly referred to as "service members...