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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...warm day in Chicago, so many commuters were listening to North on their car radios with the windows open that his testimony sounded like it was in multitudinous stereo. In other parts of the country, THANK YOU, OLIVER NORTH bumper stickers reminded commuters that Ollie was on the air. Those who could watch, did. Fifty-five million Americans saw all or part of North's testimony the first day. Ratings revealed that North's star turn was pulling in some 10% more than the usual daytime dosage of soap operas and game shows. At offices and stores around the nation...
...been a routine trip to Rishikesh, a Hindu pilgrim center in Uttar Pradesh. But half an hour into the journey, a white Fiat suddenly stopped in front of the bus, forming a blockade. Five armed men, four of them turbaned in the manner of Sikhs, burst out of the car, threw Singh off the bus and commandeered his vehicle. After driving the bus to a nearby field, the gunmen opened fire, instantly killing 38 men, women and children and wounding 20 more, two of whom also died...
...been close to 100 degrees outside when the doomed passengers entered the car. After four hours, Tostado said, they began suffering from lack of air and water. Many ripped off their clothes. As the train rumbled along busy Interstate 10, the men screamed for help, but their delirious cries could not be heard. When their supply of water ran low, Tostado recalled, many "started fighting with each other because they were desperate to breathe and drink. They didn't know what they were doing...
After graduating in 1968, North skipped summer leave and cruised down to Basic School at Quantico, Va., in his new, fleck-metal green sports car, a Shelby Cobra. North stood out right away, recalls Fellow Officer Scott Matthews. "He was hot, extremely hot . . . He was a very action-oriented individual, eager to get on with it." While at Quantico, North married Betsy Stuart in a traditional military ceremony, complete with an arch of crossed swords. He had met her on a blind date set up by his cousin when he was in his last year at Annapolis...
North's dream, however, suffered a nearly crippling collision. On Washington's Birthday weekend in 1964, North was driving home to New York with four friends. He was asleep in the back seat of the rented car they were traveling in when it plowed into an 18-wheel truck. The driver of the automobile was killed, and North suffered knee and back injuries so severe that his doctor initially thought he might never walk again. After three months in the hospital, North returned to Philmont, missing the rest of his first year at the academy. His greatest fear was that...