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...shot down O'Grady on June 2. The Bosnian Serb antiaircraft batteries, whose communications U.S. intelligence has been monitoring, may have intentionally targeted O'Grady and his wingman, Captain Bob Wright, because the two had taken part in NATO air attacks on Bosnian Serb military targets. "They knew who Basher 51 and Basher 52 were," says a Pentagon official, referring to the call signs for O'Grady and Wright. "We think they specifically wanted to take these planes...
...would not be until early Thursday morning that Captain Thomas Hanford, an F-16 pilot from O'Grady's fighter wing making one of the repeated search sorties, received the first direct radio signal from the downed pilot. "Basher-52 reads you," said O'Grady, using the "call sign" that signifies a particular plane and its pilot. "I'm alive; help." Hanford subsequently asked him to identify the name of the squadron in which he had served in Korea -- a question designed to ensure that O'Grady's message was not, in fact, a Serb trick. When he replied correctly...
STEPPING DOWN. NORMAN PODHORETZ, 65, editor and writer; as the editor in chief of Commentary; in New York City. During his 35-year stewardship, Podhoretz transformed the Jewish monthly from a voice of liberal social concern to a promoter of hard-line anti-Sovietism abroad and a basher of all things leftish and countercultural at home. The changes mirrored Podhoretz's own political evolution as one of the most influential-and certainly the most inescapable-of neoconservatives...
Then Dan Quayle, followed by professional welfare basher Charles Murray, decided that the old stigma against the out-of-wedlock was in urgent need of revival. They argue that "illegitimate" babies are clogging the welfare rolls, and that welfare, perversely, is an incentive for the production of more of them. According to one online database, the number of newspaper articles linking welfare and "illegitimacy" hovered at about 100 a year or fewer between '90 and '93 and then jumped to 157 for the first six months of '94 alone...
...sent to the sidelines in the fourth. Navratilova could be forgiven last Saturday if she was overcome with the urge to pinch herself. For there she was on Centre Court again, playing for an unprecedented 10th ladies' singles title against third- seeded Conchita Martinez, 22, a baseline basher from Barcelona, Spain...