Word: gately
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MIAs are being held prisoner 20 years after the end of the Vietnam War is now getting official U.S. attention. A Pentagon official arrived in Hanoi today to investigate the charges by Billy Hendon, a onetime Republican lawmaker from North Carolina who had briefly handcuffed himself Saturday to the gate of a U.S. office in Hanoi that deals with MIA reports. Though no U.S. official has publicly given credence to reports of MIAs still held captive, Hendon says a contact in Thailand told him an intelligence source saw the prisoners in February. He refused to disclose details, saying he wants...
SEVENTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD FREDERICK B. Lacey is America's leading justice-for-rent. The retired federal judge has been hired to lead investigations of sensitive cases ranging from the Iraq-gate scandal to Michael Jordan's gambling activities. But Lacey 's handling of his most challenging role, federal supervision of the 1.4 million-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters, has provoked debate about whether Lacey and his justice Department employers have gone soft in their handling of America's most corrupt union...
...friend was walking past the back gate of Quincy House on Mill Street, at around 3 a.m., and believed she was being followed. When she looked around, but no emergency phone. As it turned out, she ran and was fine. But it's disturbing to know that in the middle of the campus, when someone was in danger, no help was to be found...
...Harvard women's tennis team competed in its own version of a marathon this weekend, playing three matches in three days. The Crimson (12-8, 6-0 Ivy) burst out of the starting gate with a 7-0 win over Brown, Friday afternoon at Providence, R.I., and picked up the pace across the middle stages with a 6-1 win over Yale Saturday at New Haven. Harvard 7 Brown 0 Harvard 6 Yale 1 W&M 7 Harvard...
...then, says the major, "we had only two shells left. I ordered the gunner to fire one at the gate. But it misfired. So I decided we would just drive through the gates into the palace and raise our flag." Inside the palace, some South Vietnamese officials had shown up to attend the swearing-in of Duong Van Minh's government (he had barely had time to select a Cabinet). But Minh was at the gates waiting to greet NVA troops. He and his entourage, however, scurried inside when tank 843's gunner fired his single shot...