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...escape from China, Hsun-ching must find Colonel Sun, the man who had saved his life at the waterfall. Colonel Sun turns out to be the perfect companion/bodyguard, considering the fact that he is immortal and has never lost a battle since he was born "seven centuries before the birth of Christ...
That mission might come up with enough evidence to persuade U.S. officials to close the case of Colonel Charles Scharf. But it is unlikely that his family will accept a few teeth or bone shards as conclusive proof of his demise. For them, Scharf will always be missing in action, no matter how much the evidence indicates that he died in combat nearly three decades...
Jack Bailey, a retired Air Force colonel, heads Operation Rescue (no connection with the antiabortion organization of the same name). For much of the 1980s, Bailey's chief project was raising funds to support the Akuna, a freighter that he said patrolled the South China Sea rescuing Vietnamese refugees. By most accounts, the ship was unseaworthy and spent 90% of its time in port...
Forget the fish, the flies that attract them are so exquisite it seems a sin to get them wet. With such tantalizing names as Silver Monkey, Colonel's Lady, Pompadour and Easy Off, the flies in this beautifully photographed book are the real trophies that should be mounted on the wall...
...that the U.S. did not think about rescuing the hostages. In the summer of 1985, Lieut. Colonel Oliver North and Amiram Nir, the Israeli government's counterterrorism adviser, recruited 40 Lebanese Druze and paid them $1 million to help mount a rescue bid that never came off. The problem was a lack of good intelligence. The Hizballah groups were so secretive and fanatic that Western agents could never get close enough to them to keep track of precisely where they were holding the hostages. But Syria could have helped, according to a Western intelligence report that reached the Israeli government...