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...excitement of the homecoming could not mask the fatigue of the 5,500 men on the Nimitz and the 934 on its two guided-missile cruiser escorts, the California and the Texas. The patrol had been an extraordinarily arduous and lonely duty. In his talk, Carter thanked the crew for projecting "the presence of the U.S. Government and its military forces at a time . . . crucial to the maintenance of peace." He then took the occasion for an announcement that implicitly acknowledged that the services of the carrier's crew and similar American forces deserved better recognition from the nation...
...response to the rapes, the B-School has hired, independent of the University police, a 24-hour security guard to patrol the B-School on foot. The new policeman joins a Harvard police cruiser assigned to the school...
...Teddy, a professional car thief who specializes in Cadillacs. "Your Porsche, your Corvette, your Jaguar, your Mercedes, I can get you them, but I'm not used to them, you know?" His current complaint: a state trooper has eaten his driver's license. Or an aristocratic homosexual cruiser who solicits a cop. Or a kid so simple that he sets himself up for a drug rap. Kennedy's friends and co-workers are equally indelible: a colleague with whom he shares an addiction to the Red Sox, a gabby investigator named Bad Eye Mulvey, and a weary...
...loyalist: "You never felt you could just walk in on Sears with a problem. He rarely smiled and when he did, it was always manipulating. We were all amazed at the Christmas party when Sears came in and started talking socially with us. We always felt he was the cruiser and we were the tugboat...
...play the fictitious sheik, Kambir Abdul Rahman. Variously portrayed as being from Oman, Lebanon or the United Arab Emirates, the impostor set up temporary residence in a 62-ft. yacht that docked in several posh Florida marinas. As the flag vessel of the FBI'S secret fleet, the cruiser, seized by customs officials from marijuana smugglers, was first named the Left Hand and later the Corsair. "It gleamed with the predictable varnished parquet decks, teak paneling-and a wide variety of eavesdropping and recording devices. The landlubberly FBI crew who manned it, however, promptly blew...