Word: carolina
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...commandos, airmen from the Army's 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, and specially trained U.S. Army Rangers to be part of a backup force in case local police or the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team need help. Most of the 500 commandos are on alert at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, but a small contingent, armed with hidden weapons, have been patrolling Olympic sites in civilian garb, on the lookout for anything suspicious. In addition, the Army has bomb-dismantling experts and specialists trained to deal with chemical or biological weapons at the ready in Atlanta, along with more than...
DIED. VERMONT CONNECTICUT ROYSTER, 82, Pulitzer-prizewinning newspaperman who helped shape the Wall Street Journal into America's leading business daily; in Raleigh, North Carolina. Royster, whose family had a tradition of naming children after states, wrote a folksy column for 15 years after retiring...
...difficult to fill the ticket with a House or Senate member, the AP reported. Dole is expected to take great care in choosing a vice president, and not only because he would be the oldest U.S. president if elected. Other names that have emerged as potential veeps: former South Carolina Governor Carroll Campbell and five current Republican Governors, Tom Ridge of Pennsylvania, Jim Edgar of Illinois, Tommy Thompson of Wisconsin, George Voinovich of Ohio and John Engler of Michigan. Dole is expected to announce his decision just days before the convention, a move that aides hope will score...
ELVIS, FAULKNER AND FEMININE SPIRITUALITY Joel Williamson, a professor of history at the University of North Carolina, explores the links between two of the South's greatest icons, Elvis and novelist William Faulkner. "They were born within 27 miles of each other," he notes, "and both were obsessed with race and sex, and both were tremendously conscious of a class hierarchy...
FRED WHITFIELD, 37; GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA; attorney...