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...Alexis Dawn Marie Perry...
Captain Scott O'Grady, the pilot of the downed U.S. F-16, was rescued at dawn after five days of wandering throughhostile Bosnian Serb territory. Using attack jets and two rescue helicopters, a small group of U.S. Marines dodged missiles and gunfire to pick up O'Grady in a sparsely populated forest several miles from where his plane crashed. As the rescue forces homed in on the radio signal O'Grady was sending, he set off a small yellow smoke signal to fix his location. Military sources reported that as the Marines were touching down in the wooded area...
...Bust had succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of SDS. It seemed like everyone in Cambridge was shouting "strike, strike" until they were hoarse. It felt like the dawn of our own French Revolution...
...Conant witnessed the culmination of the bomb development efforts, known as the "Manhattan Project," when he viewed the dawn testing of the finalized atomic bomb in Alamogordo, New Mexico...
Indictment is just the latest TV project to offer a revisionist view of the '80s child-abuse frenzy. Robert F. Kelly Jr., former co-owner of the Little Rascals Day Care Center in Edenton, North Carolina, and Dawn Wilson, the center's cook, were granted new trials this month in a sex-abuse case that had landed them lifelong prison sentences. In arguing for the new trial, Kelly's attorney submitted a 1993 Frontline documentary (one of two pbs series aired on the case), which skeptically examined the children's fantastic claims of abuse and uncovered potential juror misconduct...