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Weeks passed, and then months. After a year, Robin's 1985 Porsche 944 was found in a parking lot at Austin's Robert Mueller Municipal Airport, apparently abandoned at the time of the disappearance. In May 1996, when Phil Donahue wanted Madalyn to attend his final broadcast, his executive producer hired a private detective to find her, to no avail. But what really fired the imagination of both the local and national press were the observations and surmises of David Travis. Travis, a Vietnam "foxhole atheist" who had lost his God while under enemy attack, had initially regarded the American...
Perhaps, but Bill Murray, who now runs a conservative, Christian-oriented PAC in Washington, is trying to make it his business. He filed a missing-persons report, and when he became dissatisfied with the Austin police's response, made a short-lived attempt to gain guardianship of his family's estates. Two weeks ago he appealed to Texas Governor George W. Bush to have the Texas Rangers take over the investigation. Murray's letter of request made some remarkable assertions--that someone is still cashing his mother's Social Security and Veterans Administration checks, and that someone is placing charges...
...longer an essential national figure--either to the public at large or to America's closeted or activist atheists, most of whom long ago shifted their allegiance to her successor organizations. But her absence leaves what the theologically inclined might call a Madalyn-shaped hole at a building in Austin. There is an air of melancholy these days about the American Atheists general headquarters on a stretch of Cameron Road. Instead of a business name (the building is unmarked), the large sign above the fenced-in parking lot reads FOR SALE. American Atheists' officers would like to leave Austin behind...
...even more fascinating story: the bizarre disappearance of Madalyn Murray O'Hair, America's best-known nonbeliever. No one has seen O'Hair since, as legend has it, she walked away from an unfinished breakfast in August 1995. Van Biema's pursuit of the missing activist took him to Austin, Texas, where her organization has its headquarters. The mystery deepened when his sources starting contradicting one another. "Those discrepancies roused my curiosity," he says, and formed the basis of this week's exclusive piece...
...contract before a deadline of midnight EST Friday. The union, the Allied Pilots Association, has established a strike "war room" in Miami, while the airline has alerted its 90,000 employees that a layoff may be coming. "There's a lot of distrust on both sides," says TIME Austin bureau chief Sam Gwynne. "The central truth at this point is that the two sides can't even agree on the major issue. The management says this strike is about money; the pilots say it's about the emergence of regional jets." This contract will effectively lay the ground rules...