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...know, schools like Central Idaho, Montana Tech and Albuquerque A&M. Nicknames like the "Fighting Potatoes" and "Coyote Ranchers." These BSC kids lead the nation every year in frequent flyer mileage, hands down, and rarely in anything else...
This mix of frequent-flyer tedium and Boy's Life thrills is nothing new for Hermanos al Rescate, or Brothers to the Rescue. Three times a week this group of 24 pilots flies out of Miami (usually four planes to a sortie) in order to search for balseros -- rafters -- who are risking their lives to make the 90- mile crossing from Cuba. Each of the Brothers' planes is decorated, bomber- style, with stickers representing rafts saved -- Domaniewicz's alone boasts 32. The Brothers, founded in 1991 by two Cuban-American veterans of the Bay of Pigs invasion, have rescued...
From late 1983 through 1985, Ames served as chief of the Soviet counterintelligence branch in the S.E. division. With this elevation in status came new duties. From March 1984 to July 1986, when he was transferred to Rome, Ames was authorized to hold frequent phone conversations and meetings with Soviet embassy officials. CIA rules mandated that all such contacts be cleared in advance or reported afterward. Unknown to his superiors, however, Ames began to conduct unauthorized, unreported conversations...
Angleton would rightly be appalled at how Ames aimlessly drifted past CIA monitoring. Though he took frequent trips abroad, including to that eternal city of spies, Vienna, and though he bought a $540,000 house on a $70,000 salary, Angleton's successors barely took notice...
Piercy attempts to show the vulnerability of modern women, but instead depicts her female characters as essentially helpless, clinging to their husbands with whatever skills they can for fear of being left with nothing. Even Leila, supposedly the independent-minded professional, spent decades making excuses for her husband's frequent affairs with younger women. She only divorces him when he goes as far as moving in with his pregnant girlfriend...