Word: blonded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Blond, bearded and neat, Ed Starkins, 26, has lived in Vancouver for three years. He works for $100 a week at a medical clinic, writing health manuals. A graduate of San Diego State, he left for Canada after learning that the FBI had called at his home one day while he was out (he had ignored two draft notices). Starkins likes Canada so much he plans to stay. "I wouldn't go back," he says, "except to visit my family and friends. The problem is not just the Viet Nam War. It is the whole social structure that...
...summer of 1971, most of the fighting was being done by the South Vietnamese. But for the G.I.s in the rear areas, there was another enemy to fight: hard drugs. To find out why, I invited a "closet" addict from Army headquarters in Saigon to come over and talk. Blond, gangling and obviously underweight, my guest slouched into a chair, pulled a vial of heroin from his baggy fatigues, tapped some of the white powder into a cigarette paper and lit up. At college in Ohio he had majored in engineering, been on the debating team, the basketball team...
...careerist whose training and education had for years been directed toward one end: marriage with Victoria. How the union proceeded forms one of the most entertaining strands in Mrs. Woodham-Smith's book. Victoria had seen him before, but she first fell in love with this blue-and-blond Parsifal in 1839. "It was with some emotion that I beheld Albert-who is beautiful," she observed in her diary. Their correspondence from the beginning was a model of Victorian decorum and devotion ("Never, never did I think I could be loved so much"). Their engagement was long...
...summed up his harrowing experience in a collection of bitter letters called Letters from the Prison of the System. "In the movies," he wrote, "[imprisonment] can be painful, but it's always in a certain intellectualized way. In reality there's only suffering, hate, stink, sickness. The blond hero who comes to lead his men after years in the dungeon doesn't exist. What comes out is a tired person who stinks or is tubercular. That's the reality...
...gather that the three men, including Raphael, Ambassador to France from the Republic of Miranda, make a profit on the sly by smuggling cocaine across French customs in the diplomatic pouch. Raphael is also engaged in illicit though indifferent, lovemaking with his friend Francois's blond wife. Supposed terrorists pursue Raphael, who disposes of them as callously as he does the affairs of his state. Later all three couples are released from imprisonment on a drug trafficking charge by a discreet phone call from the French secretary, whom Raphael quickly invites to visit his country in return for the favor...