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...embassy night duty from July 1985 to March 1986, the two guards regularly let Soviet agents into the empty embassy late at night "to peruse" sensitive areas, including the embassy's communications center, for up to four hours at a time. Bracy, the corps' charge sheet claims, served as lookout and shut down security alarms set off by the Soviets. "These guys actually escorted the Soviets around the building," said a Pentagon official...
...urgent that doctors be aware of it, says TSS Expert Bruce Dan, in an editorial that accompanied MacDonald's paper. Early recognition and treatment of the syndrome "is the most important factor in being able to prevent fatalities," says Dan. "It behooves all physicians to be on the lookout for any influenza patient whose condition suddenly worsens...
...landed in a New York City jail cell, where she was held for five days before being put on a plane and sent back to Bogota. Lara, 35, had been detained upon arrival at New York's Kennedy Airport by immigration officials who discovered that she was in their "lookout book," a list of some 40,000 people suspected of "subversive, Communist or terrorist activities...
...some destinations, vacant rooms are already in short supply. The 4,600- unit Aston hotel chain in Maui, Hawaii, is completely booked for much of the summer season. Sales are also brisk at less renowned vacation spots: Rock City Gardens, a scenic 14-acre spot atop Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga, Tenn., is attracting 20% more visitors than last year. At Best Western Hotels, the world's largest lodging chain, reservations are up 36% at its 1,892 U.S. hotels...
...plunged into pessimism about his own unfulfilled ambitions? The execution is not quite so imaginative as the premise. Tom (John Cullum) and Huck (George C. Scott) are both using assumed names, so it takes a long, creaky while for them to acknowledge each other as they circle the riverbank lookout of Michael Miller's evocatively sylvan set. Their reminiscences are not rich enough: it would help if they had led more complicated lives...