Word: hunts
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...some cities near military bases, vice-squad detectives routinely help military police hunt down soldiers at gay and lesbian bars. Interrogations can last 12 hours, during which suspects are threatened with exposure to their parents, dishonorable discharge, and in the case of some lesbians, loss of custody of their children. Many suspects are pressured to reveal the names of other gay servicemen and -women. The interrogators, says Bridget Wilson of the Military Law Task Force in San Diego, which helps defend gay and lesbian service members, "are routinely dishonest, routinely incompetent and routinely lie to and terrorize service members...
...writers have more cause for mourning the end of the cold war than Tom Clancy. Starting with The Hunt for Red October (1984), his five thrillers, heavy on technology and all bearing directly or aslant on the threat of superpower confrontation, have sold 28 million copies. His Clear and Present Danger appeared in 1989 and, astonishingly, went on to become the top-selling novel...
There's at least one group of Americans interested in the 1992 presidential race. A number of Hollywood artists have established a West Coast chapter of The Creative Coalition, the New York-based lobbying committee established in 1989 by actors ALEC BALDWIN (The Hunt for Red October) and RON SILVER (Reversal of Fortune). TCC/West is meeting regularly to map out a public affairs strategy and arrange a televised debate on campaign reform. Also in the talking stage is a series of professionally produced half-hour programs hosted by various stars that will analyze political advertising and explain how it often...
...display of his head-counting skill, Bonior predicted he would receive 160 votes in the whip's race to 95 for Maryland's flamboyant Steny Hoyer. Bonior was right on the money on his own total, but underestimated Hoyer's strength by 14. When he begins to hunt down Democrats who do not always hew to party orthodoxy, Bonior will need to look no farther than the mirror: though generally a liberal, he is strongly antiabortion and vows to "continue to vote my conscience...
...features tentacles rather than mandibles. Otherwise it is the familiar mixture: lethal creature, relentless pursuers and vast quantities of saline solution. When waters off Bermuda become the killing grounds of a giant squid, tourism collapses. Whereupon an Ahabian fisherman, Whip Darling, clambers into a submarine and leads the hunt. All the old ingredients are present, from aqua horror ("the creature moved toward the unnatural thing") to Moby Dick denouement (" 'Here!' he shouted, and he drove the saw deep into the yawning beak"). In between are adrenal confrontations and detailed descriptions of marine life and death -- everything, in fact, but background...