Word: desertion
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...flight by two Navy F-14s, the two crewmen aboard a Tomcat "removed their flight suits, helmets and oxygen masks in an apparent attempt to 'moon' the crew of the other aircraft. Unfortunately, this 'college-boy' prank proved fatal when they passed out" and plummeted into the Arizona desert...
...asked to find any common strands among the cases that might provide clues to what had happened. And they were asked to determine how many cases might have been betrayed by Edward Lee Howard, the former CIA officer who sold secrets to the KGB, escaped into the New Mexico desert in 1985 and surfaced in Moscow a year later. Of the cases Howard had not known about, Vertefeuille and her team were asked to determine how many might be explained by other factors, such as sloppiness on the part of either the agent or the CIA case officer...
...soon they will be flying off to freedom in the U.S. Meanwhile, less than a mile away, more than 200 Haitian children lounge listlessly under drab green tents, seeking refuge from the harsh midday sun. Camp Nine, their home since last June, is a desolate patch of cactus-filled desert where the only sign of life is an occasional banana rat or iguana. A fence encircles the camp, which is guarded by American soldiers. The children, many of them orphans, have languished in this dusty purgatory for nearly a year. Despite the efforts of immigrants' rights groups, only...
...Riley-the famed "Big Red One," whose troops were among the first to land at Normandy in World War II and to enter Iraq during the Gulf War. Nichols was discharged for undisclosed reasons in May 1989, but McVeigh rose to sergeant and went on to serve in Operation Desert Storm, where he won several medals, including a Bronze Star. Although the awards were described by Pentagon officials as "typical" for those who served in the theater, one officer notes, "Some captains and majors didn't get Bronze Stars, so he must have been a half-decent soldier...
...Shahak, an Israeli citizen, estimates that almost 400 villages were eliminated, in the sense that they were "destroyed completely, with their houses, garden-walls, and even cemeteries and tombstones, so that literally a stone does not remain standing, and visitors are passing and being told that "it was all desert.'" When Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, the U.N. High Commissioner for refugees, referred to the Bosnians as "the Palestinians of Europe," perhaps he also should have referred to the Serbs as "the Israelis of Europe." Indeed, the pattern of their thinking and practices is terrifyingly similar...