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...torn Sudan. Richardson says he never accepts a mission unless the family, the State Department and the country holding the hostage all invite him to mediate. Early, his Kenyan co-pilot and an Australian nurse were captured by Kerubino's men on Nov. 1, when their Red Cross plane landed at an airstrip near Gogrial. The plane was seized because it had also been carrying five wounded fighters of the Sudan People's Liberation Army, with which Kerubino's forces had been feuding for local power amid a war with the Khartoum government in the north...
...Dulles International Airport in Washington, planning to board a flight for New York and from there a connection to Zurich. Waiting on the tarmac, disguised as ground crew, were two FBI agents, members of the bureau's supersecretive counterintelligence squad. As Nicholson headed for the open door of his plane, they blocked his path and told him he was under arrest. At that moment, three more squad members slid out from among the pack of passengers, eased up on either side of him and led him away. After agent Michael Lonergan read him his rights, Nicholson spoke just one sentence...
...skin on May 17, 1995, finishing a repair job left undone by others. Mueller, Technical Sergeant William Campbell and a third man rebolted a pair of flight-control rods to two hookups that relayed the pilot's tug on his control stick to the movable flaps that control the plane's flight. Mueller, a highly regarded 17-year Air Force mechanic, double-checked the work with a mirror and flashlight...
...Their F-15 pilots were saved from certain death only because an alert ground crew and one pilot noted the flaps weren't moving properly before takeoff. But as Major Donald Lowry Jr., 36, prepared to fly on May 30, 1995, no one noticed the snafu. So Lowry's plane, instead of being lifted into the sky that Memorial Day morning, was pushed into the runway and disintegrated at 250 m.p.h...
Senator JOHN MCCAIN learned how to say "My God!" in Vietnamese last week. This is because "Troi O!" is what the man who saved McCain's life 29 years ago shouted when meeting him for the first time in Hanoi. During the Vietnam War McCain ejected from his plane into Hanoi's Truc Bach Lake. He was unconscious, with two broken legs, when MAI VAN ON, a member of the People's Army, swam in and fished him out with two bamboo poles. On's neighbors called him a coward for not beating the American. These days McCain...