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...ordeal began as she, her son Andrew, 5, and her husband Xue Donghua approached the Northwest Airlines counter at Beijing airport on Feb. 11 to return from a three-week vacation. Suddenly, some 15 plainclothes security agents appeared and separated the family. "We didn't even have a chance to look at each other," says Xue. The agents blindfolded Xue and drove him to a house where they interrogated him for 26 days. On March 8 they took him to Andrew, who, because of the abrupt and prolonged break, did not recognize him at first. "He was looking...
...worried about the fact that somehow I didn't open my books over the past nine days, still drying off from the cold Chicago rain (why? why is it not spring yet?!) and of course compiling and scheduling a list of all the signs on the Northwest Tollway (I-90) that need to be inspected this summer...
KILLED. FIVE U.S. SERVICEMEN and one New Zealand army officer; during training exercises in northwest Kuwait; when a Navy F/A-18 Hornet fighter jet erroneously dropped unguided, 500-lb. bombs on them. The U.S. has sent a team to uncover why the tragedy occurred...
Travelers may be grateful Bush halted a strike at Northwest, but his pledge to stop any airline strike this year has labor griping that he has undercut its bargaining power. (Presidents rarely intervene in airline strikes.) At least three other carriers face possible walkouts this year...
...Northwest Mounted Police," with Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Robert Preston and an amazingly unlikely Paulette Goddard as a feral vixen of the north woods...