Word: belle
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...visit to the American Office for POW-MIA Affairs, set up last summer in Hanoi's Boss Hotel, cast some doubt on that conclusion. Bell, head of the office, said the pilot of an F-4C flying in formation with Scharf's had reported that he saw a parachute fully deployed. That meant one of the crew could have survived and may have been taken prisoner. Because Scharf's body was never located, said Bell, "our conclusion was that further efforts are warranted." But one of the office's investigators later insisted, "Both of them are dead...
...refuses to pay for remains out of fear that to do so would encourage the trade in bones even more. Says Garnett Bell: "Some remains could be in the hands of private citizens, but the figure is unknown." Last year a Vietnamese team was sent the length of the country to ask local officials and individuals to turn over any evidence on MIAs. The search yielded a scant 46 boxes, only three of which contained materials relating to MIA cases. A joint U.S.-Vietnamese forensic team is examining the materials...
Later in Hanoi, Bell commiserated with us about the frustrating journey: "That's pretty typical. We get right down to the wire and then can't find the remains." He said the American MIA office in Hanoi would like to excavate the Scharf crash site, because even if most of the bones have been removed, it is possible that a few teeth or other fragments might remain. But it would be next to impossible to lug the necessary gear up the mountain, and Vietnam's Soviet-built helicopters are too large and unreliable to risk setting down in that treacherous...
...rights marcher to feminist, Endesha Ida Mae Holland has lived a life remarkable in itself and symbolic of half a century of astonishing U.S. social change. Her bluesy memoir has been toured by a trio of women, equally deft at folksy caricature and tragedy, who sing like the Liberty Bell...
...rights marcher to feminist, Endesha Ida Mae Holland has lived a life remarkable in itself and symbolic of half a century of astonishing U.S. social change. Her bluesy memoir has been toured by a trio of women, equally deft at folksy caricature and tragedy, who sing like the Liberty Bell...