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Upstate New York is a nice place to visit for the weekend. With all the hustle and buslte of Boston, a three-day jaunt into the country sounds like the perfect remedy for a bad case of "city blues...
...team hoping to defend a conference crown, Harvard looked less than royal. The 15-3 tally matched the Olympians' previous best outing--that jaunt around the ice came at the expense of New Hampshire...
...later convicted with Colino of conspiracy to commit fraud, demanded payment of a commission for arranging a construction loan. A spot internal audit discovered that no such payment was due. Further auditing by Peat Marwick revealed other oddities. In early December 1986, on his return from a jaunt to Australia, Colino found his eighth-floor office sealed off by armed guards. He was escorted from the building shouting, "I'm taking names! I'm going to kick butts when I get back in power!" But he never did. Within hours, Colino and Jose Alegrett, a Venezuelan and Intelsat's deputy...
When Cuban Air Force Brigadier General Rafael del Pino Diaz boarded a small Cessna 402 one afternoon last week along with his wife and three children, he apparently told Cuban airport authorities that he merely intended to take a flying jaunt around the island. Instead, he headed for Key West Naval Air Station 90 miles away. Picked up by radar, the Cessna attracted the attention of two F-16 fighters, but they allowed Del Pino to pass after clearance from the control tower. Upon landing, the general turned himself over to U.S. military and immigration officials, becoming the highest-ranking...
Chloe and Hugh do eventually meet and make love, but this romantic moment quickly pales beside other, pressing concerns. The hospital administrator assumes that Chloe is a spy. A weekend jaunt to a nearby cave yields a dying man and then, in short order, a corpse for which none of the local authorities will accept responsibility. Chloe begins to suspect Hugh of working for the CIA, and numerous new acquaintances of being informers for SAVAK, the Shah's secret police. She rashly hands over her passport to an Iranian woman who wants to break out of her arranged marriage...