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...visit to the American Office for POW-MIA Affairs, set up last summer in Hanoi's Boss Hotel, cast some doubt on that conclusion. Bell, head of the office, said the pilot of an F-4C flying in formation with Scharf's had reported that he saw a parachute fully deployed. That meant one of the crew could have survived and may have been taken prisoner. Because Scharf's body was never located, said Bell, "our conclusion was that further efforts are warranted." But one of the office's investigators later insisted, "Both of them are dead...
Among those questioned, according to Kalugin, were an agent for the Central Intelligence Agency, a U.S. Navy officer and a U.S. Air Force officer. He also told the Daily News that two of the POWs later returned to the U.S. -- an astounding claim, if true, because the only former POW known to have been repatriated after 1973 was Marine PFC Robert Garwood, who disappeared near Danang in 1965 and resurfaced 14 years later, claiming he had been a prisoner of the North Vietnamese. Garwood was court-martialed for collaborating with the enemy...
...civil liberties aspect of the Noriega case is "unprecedented and somewhat disturbing," says Charles Maechling Jr., a specialist in international law. Lawyers point specifically to Noriega's long pretrial incarceration without an opportunity for bail. Some experts are also worried that Noriega's lawyers haven't fully explored his POW status or the jurisdictional question of kidnapping him and bringing him to Miami to trial. "How would we feel about Libyan squads coming to the U.S. to extract Islamic justice?" wonders Alfred Rubin, professor of international law at Tufts University...
...have seen Hollywood's woman of the '90s, and her name is V.I. Warshawski (rhymes with Kah-pow-ski). This free-lance Chicago detective is tough and sexy and nurturing. She is a teenage waif's very best surrogate mother. She can come on strong to a stud stranger at the local bar; she'll buy him a drink. But Warshawski is faster with a kick than a caress. Any hulk who tries to pummel some manners into her will get his genitals twisted in a nutcracker. And at the end of the new movie named after her, she will...
...ultimate fate of the Keating Five. Citing health reasons, Cranston decided last November not to seek re- election in 1992; but his support has fallen so precipitously that half of California voters polled believe he should resign now. Bolstered by their national-hero status, former astronaut Glenn and former POW McCain, the group's lone Republican, have recovered from the beating they took in the polls right after the Keating affair became public. DeConcini and Riegle have not been so lucky. Polls show that if they were up for re-election today, any challenger with a pulse could beat them...