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...happened-as Hollywood would have seen fit to script it-the only people aside from Reagan who really believed in Star Wars were the military leadership of the Soviet Union. The Zap! Pow! Bam! comic-book defense strategy reinforced Moscow's growing despair about the future and hastened the end of the cold war. And that, finally, is what has proved most galling to the Gipper's ideological opponents: his glossy Hollywood optimism proved more supple than the professional pessimism of the intellectual left. Ultimately, Reagan's sloppy and often insensitive domestic governance will have little impact on his place...
...want to see sacrifice, John McCain ought to visit our young men and women at Walter Reed and Bethesda." DENNIS HASTERT, Speaker of the House, responding to Senator McCain's comment that there had been little U.S. sacrifice for the war in Iraq; McCain, a former POW, said he was referring to the fact that civilians have not been asked to sacrifice...
...life back to normal, because it's hard. It's so hard. But at the same time I'm like, Wow, I get to go to New York. I get to go to Hollywood. I get to hang out with people like Britney and Leonardo." JESSICA LYNCH, former POW, on her life a year after her rescue...
...Amazingly, almost 500 POWs are still stuck in North Korea, according to South Korea's Ministry of Defense. (Reports of American POW sightings have never been confirmed.) The two countries swapped prisoners when hostilities ended, but North Korea held onto at least 19,000 soldiers, South Korea's Ministry of Defense estimates, and has stubbornly denied their existence ever since. Says Ahn Sang Won, a spokesman for the Korean Veterans Association: "We just don't understand why South Korea can't be tougher on the North." According to the government, Lee was only the 35th POW to escape North Korea...
...South Korean law grants up to $580,000 to POWs when they return home, so a minibusiness has sprung up. Brokers living on the Chinese border offer to find POWs and spirit them out-if families pay fees of at least $25,000. But sometimes getting across the border isn't enough. Jeon Yong Il, another South Korean POW who worked in a mine for decades, swam across the Tumen River into China last June along with his North Korean son, daughter-in-law and her mother. But when the group asked for help at the South Korean embassy...