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...real, a bloody shootout between seven FBI agents and the two robbery suspects they had cornered. In the end, two lawmen lay dead--the 28th and 29th agents killed in the line of duty in the FBI's 78-year history. The suspects, William Matix, 34, and Michael Platt, 32, were also slain. As investigators last week traced the paths that Matix and Platt followed to their deaths, a strange story unfolded, a shadowy tale of two men who left a trail of cold blood...
Both men were born and bred in the heartland: Matix hailed from Lewisberg, Ohio; Platt from Bloomington, Ind. They met during military service in Korea about ten years ago. Matix later married Patty Buchanich, and the couple became born-again Christians. In December 1983, just two months after Patty gave birth to a daughter, she and another woman were found stabbed to death at the cancer research lab in Columbus where they worked. The murders were never solved. Matix later told a religious publication that he was "beating the walls in desperation" after his wife's death...
...urging of Army Buddy Platt, Matix moved down to Miami, where the two transplanted Midwesterners founded their own tree-trimming and lawn-care company, the Yankee Clipper. Then, about a year after Patty Matix's death, Platt's wife Regina was killed by a shotgun blast. Her death was ruled a suicide...
Meanwhile at the American-Mission in Geneva George P. Schultz, looking like Ed Platt (The Grey-Haired Chief), Robert C. McFarlane, and others gather in their own transparent cubicle (this one has curtains) to plot the next move against the "Evil Empire", The USSR...
...costly cooler was exposed by an anonymous whistle-blower who wrote a letter to Democratic Congresswoman Barbara Boxer of California. Further investigation revealed that eight smaller units were bought this year, without competitive bidding, at $12,000 apiece. Commodore Stuart Platt, the Navy's first "competition advocate general," called the $16,571 payment "ridiculous." As he inspected the unit in Norfolk last week, he promised, "We are not trying to sweep this under the rug. We are learning from our mistakes." Indeed, the amount of Navy purchases made through competitive bidding increased from 26% in 1982 to 38% last...