Word: confirmed
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...bomber pilot Lieut. Colonel Joseph Morrison, shot down on Nov. 25, 1968. He died after he parachuted safely to the ground. But the F-4D is a two-seat aircraft, and Pentagon analysts noted one photo of Morrison's personal effects showed an extra pistol; this led them to confirm the death of his back-seater San D. Francisco. Intelligence analysts now expect that the Hanoi museum material already in hand may clear up 23 of the 135 so-called discrepancy cases, where the U.S. knows an individual survived a plane crash or was captured, but has not been able...
Although the memorandum was issued before the debate began, it declared the following: "Tonight was a clear win, a big win for the President...Bill Clinton came in a cautious and weak third place." Then after the debate, to confirm the conspiracy, the scripted words spilled obediently from the lips of Bush campaign advisers. All night they cawed in unison: "It was a big win for the President." "Clinton was cautious and weak," they astutely explained to whomever would listen...
...Schwab did confirm that she faces apossible charge of possession of a controlledsubstance. He said police action will depend oninformation from lab analysis of the recovereddrug and discussion with the district attorney'soffice...
Police officers would not confirm the identity of the two individuals. The man is Caucasian, in his 20s, and has a beard and mustache. As of last night, police were unable to say whether the two are affiliated with Harvard...
Scientists, meanwhile, were demystifying the universe. Strangely, no one knows for sure who invented the telescope, but by 1609 Galileo Galilei had built one of his own. With it he was able to confirm the heretical speculations of Copernicus, Kepler and Tycho Brahe that the sun, not the earth, was the center of our universe. The specific origins of the microscope are equally obscure. In the 17th century, Robert Hooke used it to describe accurately the anatomy of a flea and the design of a feather; Antonie de Leeuwenhoek discovered a world of wriggling organisms in a drop of water...