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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...night was moonless, the kind of darkness that pilots liken to flying into a black hole. On the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lieut. John ("Tuba") Gadzinski inched the F-14 Tomcat forward so a deck crewman could hook it to the catapult that would hurl the fighter skyward at 260 km/h. In the Tomcat's backseat, radar-intercept officer Lieut. (j.g.) Kristin ("Rosie") Dryfuse glanced out the cockpit to another deckhand holding a lighted box that flashed "66,000 lbs.," (30 metric tons) the plane's weight. Dryfuse circled her flashlight to signal that the weight was correct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALL HANDS ON DECK | 4/17/1995 | See Source »

...They made the argument that Gina's record,although distinguished, was no more distinguishedthan that of many applicants," the source said."It was the orphan angle that was a good hook. Thefact that Gina was an orphan and had come fromdifferent circumstances was what made her unique...

Author: By Sewell Chan, | Title: Grant Case Sparks National Debate | 4/10/1995 | See Source »

Although Swerling, Grant's defense attorney,argued that the defendant had suffered throughyears of extreme emotional abuse under analcoholic mother, Myers said Grant struck hermother following an argument over Grant'srelations with a boyfriend, Jack Hook...

Author: By Sewell Chan, | Title: Grant Case Sparks National Debate | 4/10/1995 | See Source »

...mother forbade her from seeing theboyfriend, the boyfriend would slip into the houseevery night after [her mother] went to sleep,"Myers said. Hook, who attempted to help Mayfield'sdeath appear to be a suicide by inserting acarving knife in the dead woman's neck, pleadaccessory to the murder and served nearly a yearin a juvenile corrections facility...

Author: By Sewell Chan, | Title: Grant Case Sparks National Debate | 4/10/1995 | See Source »

Pena off the Hook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEEK: MARCH 12-18 | 3/27/1995 | See Source »

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