Word: mias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long-range problems for MIA recovery in Southeast Asia are not disposed of so easily. Laos let negotiations drag for more than three years before allowing this team's visit. Unlike Viet Nam and Kampuchea (formerly Cambodia), + Laos does maintain diplomatic relations with the U.S., though at the charge d'affaires level. But the Laotians here made it very clear that continued cooperation on the MIA issue is contingent upon generous...
Hanoi and its Southeast Asian allies will probably continue to make available small quantities of MIA remains, using the maneuver as a way of gaining political or financial leverage. But political machinations are not important to the men who do the digging in the jungle. "We've got several more crash sites that we would like to look at," says Harvey. Behind him Laotian soldiers pluck bone shards from the sifting pans and hand them to a U.S. soldier who puts them in a canvas bag the size of a woman's purse...
...watches the film for the fifth time in the Jewel, Cecilia (Mia Farrow) is well lost in pleasure. A New Jersey hash-house waitress, all thumbs and fanzine fantasies, she can remember whom Lew Ayres used to date but not who just ordered eggs over easy. So she has lost her job. Would that she could lose her husband Monk (Danny Aiello) so easily. He is a bruiser who spends his unemployed days pitching pennies with his pals, his nights alternately neglecting or abusing Cecilia. Her life is like a movie, all right, but the wrong kind, the first reel...
...pace, mio Dio, it was the heartrending plea of a desperate woman begging God for surcease; when she cried O Scarpia, avanti a Dio! at the end of Tosca, it was a chilling curse delivered at the gates of hell. And when she sang Aida's anguished O patria mia, as she did last week, it was a radiant invocation of pathos...
...Mia Wright added a score in the second stanza to put the final...