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...never married, as far as anyone knew. The CIA was her life. She lived alone in a condo in McLean, Virginia, so close to the CIA's headquarters in Langley that she walked to work each day. If a co-worker stopped to offer her a lift, she would not accept unless it was raining hard...
Tony: My first reaction, as my annoying roommate repeatedly attempted to lift me out of my comatose state, was to call him some names that I'd rather not mention in print. Nevertheless, he managed to drag me out of bed and into the common room. As I stood there, asleep on my feet, he asked me if I noticed whether there was anything strange about the room; immediately, my eyes honed in on the figure lying fast asleep on the futon, wearing what looked like one of my roommate's numerous plaid J. Crew shirts. Very quickly, I circled...
Kluttz says he was particularly struck by the gruesome process of identifying the bodies, especially those of children. Since in many cases rescuers could find only pieces of bodies, some had to go to homes to do things like lift finger prints off of cribs so that identifications could be made...
...movie opens with escaped convict Julian Goddard (Dylan McDermott) wandering the desert, when Johnny Destiny, driving a 1969 Plymouth Roadrunner, stops and offers him a lift. Destiny (Quentin Tarrantino) brings Goddard to Las Vegas where Goddard left his former love, Lucille (Nancy Travis), and his share of the money from the bank robbery for which he was incarcerated...
...very clear," explained an Administration official. "Normalization is linked to progress on the POW/MIA issue." That fixation has disrupted a diplomatic mating dance between the U.S. and Vietnam that had, until last year, brought both partners tantalizingly close to consummating their ticklish relationship. Clinton's February 1994 decision to lift the 19-year-old Vietnam trade embargo paved the way for full normalization, a move for which the State Department has been quietly preparing ever since. But goaded by a core of MIA families capitalizing on the President's reluctance to alienate those who lost relatives...