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...MARGARETHE CAMMERMEYER WERE a heroine in a fictional TV movie of the week, critics might chide the writers for inventing a character so hyperbolically resolute. After all, how believable is a venerated female Army colonel who raises four fine sons, runs a seizure clinic, attains a doctorate in nursing at 49, and then makes a career of challenging the military's antigay policy...
Produced by Barbra Streisand and Glenn Close, who stars as Cammermeyer, the story begins when the colonel meets beret-wearing Los Angeles artist Diane Divelbess, played by an atypically serene Judy Davis. Cammermeyer, 46 and divorced, is working on her Ph.D. and serving as chief nurse of the Washington State National Guard when Diane gently rocks her world and then sets it right...
Glenn Close stars in thisdramatization of the life of Margarethe Cammermeyer, a much-decorated Army colonel who takes on the military's anti-gay policy. After admitting her sexual preference to the Army at a security clearance interview, she is honorably discharged and then makes fierce and earnest attempts to change the rules. The movie, says TIME critic Ginia Bellafante, "provides enough inherent drama to make (it) far better than the typical TV movie of the week." Watch it on Feb. 6 at NBC. Check local listings for time...
...Museum, which housed the Defense Ministry's war artifacts. The Vietnamese agreed, permitting him to browse through displays of uniforms and equipment taken from members of the U.S. Air Force and even to photograph documents. During a return visit by Schweitzer six months later, the museum's director, Senior Colonel Pham Duc Dai, made a startling revelation: the museum was the repository for records on all the Americans, living or dead, who had fallen into North Vietnamese hands. ``All the records, Colonel?'' Schweitzer asked, flabbergasted. ``We have everything,'' the colonel replied and handed Schweitzer the Red Book. Later, Colonel...
...return to Hanoi, operation ``Swamp Ranger'' was almost blown before it started. A Pentagon official, in the capital as part of an official POW task force, had just presented the Foreign Ministry with photographs of documents in the Central Military Museum and ``demanded that we provide everything,'' a furious Colonel Dai told Schweitzer. The photos had been taken by Schweitzer and turned over to the Pentagon. The task-force members were unaware of Schweitzer's secret mission, McConnell writes. ``How did American intelligence get copies of your pictures?'' Colonel Dai demanded, suspecting that Schweitzer was a spy. After four days...