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...Guatemalan rebel leader married to a U.S. citizen. But the agency said nothing about the congressman's most explosive allegation. In a letter delivered to President Clinton on Wednesday night, Torricelli, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said that the two were murdered by a Guatemalan colonel who was on the CIA payroll. "When there is an investigation about the death of an American citizen, withholding information about those responsible and circumstances about that murder is not bad policy, it's a crime," said Torricelli in demanding a formal investigation. At issue are the deaths of innkeeper Michael Devine...
DIED. LIEUT. COLONEL MATT URBAN, 75, World War II hero; in Holland, Michigan. Urban's World War II exploits across the European theater ultimately earned him more combat decorations than any other soldier in American history, including the Medal of Honor and seven Purple Hearts for wounds received in combat, like the bullet that tore out a vocal cord and left him raspy-voiced to the end of his days. He led a milder civilian life as a recreation director...
YOUNG, GUNG-HO MAJOR SALT (Cuba Gooding Jr.) is eager to impress his bosses by describing the fatal cunning of the Motaba virus-how it rapidly turns a healthy body into a bloody, pustulous corpse. "That's very good, Major," says Colonel Sam Daniels (Dustin Hoffman) wryly. "We've read that in a book...
...Islamists can kill anyone, anywhere, anytime,'' said one of the few remaining European residents of Algiers. Militants have stepped up their ambushes and assassinations. A suicide bombing on Jan. 30 killed 42 people and injured 256 outside police headquarters in downtown Algiers. In a well-planned attack, Islamists assassinated Colonel Djilali Meraou, a ranking member of Algerian military intelligence, and two bodyguards...
...space shuttle Discovery and its crew of six climbed into orbit, the dreams and aspirations of women also soared, in the person of Lieut. Colonel EILEEN COLLINS, 38. Collins is second in command and the first female to take over the controls of a NASA spaceship. She is carrying mementos of women aviators of the past, including a scarf that belonged to Amelia Earhart. Collins started taking flying lessons when she was 19 and in 1990 became the U.S. Air Force's second woman test pilot. She is not dwelling on the historic aspect of this flight: ``Maybe someday when...