Word: planes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite persuasive evidence that U.S. Air Force pilot Charles Scharf died when his plane slammed into a Vietnamese mountainside, Barbara Scharf Lowerison remains convinced that her brother survived and is being held against his will in Asia. She has only fragmentary evidence to support her belief, like a fleeting glimpse of someone who might have been her brother in an old East German film about POWs, and a CIA report that lists him as a prisoner. "I know my brother's alive," she maintains...
...brother was captured and shipped to China. She reasons that he would have been valuable to Beijing because, she says, he told her that during the Vietnam War he undertook secret reconnaissance flights over China. Lowerison says when Air Force officials told her and her mother that Scharf's plane had gone down, they added a strange command. "We were told not to talk about him or give out his name to anyone," she recalls, "not even our neighbors...
...joint team had interviewed witnesses who had seen a jet explode in midair, others who found two dead bodies at the crash site and others who claimed that they had buried the two pilots. The Vietnamese investigators concluded that Scharf and Massucci both died when their plane crashed into Suoi Pai Mountain...
Each interview took more than an hour of slow, sentence-by-sentence translation. The witnesses went into vivid detail about what they had seen when they arrived on the scene: the plane's wreckage and the mangled bodies of the two airmen. Agreement on these details could have been orchestrated by the Vietnamese government, but small differences between the witnesses' stories seemed more likely to stem from the various times at which they arrived on the scene. Their accounts meshed in a way that would have been hard to coordinate...
...industry, agricultural reforms to break up state farms, and tough new monetary and fiscal policies. Says Jeffrey Sachs, a Harvard economist who is advising the Yeltsin government: "All this is like jumping out of an airplane while you are still sewing the parachute. But they have no choice -- the plane's crashing...