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...Army Air Corps, as it was then called. During the Korean War, he was an F-86 fighter pilot, along with pioneering astronauts Gus Grissom and Buzz Aldrin. After 15 years in uniform, he resigned his commission to write full time. Hollywood beckoned--he scripted one of Robert Redford's early hits, Downhill Racer--but Salter eventually retreated to Colorado and New York's Long Island to concentrate on his meticulously crafted novels and short fiction. (A collection, Dusk and Other Stories, won the 1988 PEN/Faulkner Award, and his 1956 novel, The Hunters, was recently reprinted by Counterpoint Press...
...grand jury refused last week to indict Banuelos for shooting Hernandez, ruling that he had acted properly in defense of his fellow soldiers. But what remains unresolved--the question that has sent powerful tremors from the adobe-and-cinder-block foundations of Redford to the Defense Department in Washington--is whether the Marines should have been there in the first place...
...case. On May 20, Marine Corporal Clemente Banuelos, 22, aimed his M-16 rifle at an 18-year-old goatherd named Esequiel Hernandez Jr. and shot him to death. Banuelos was part of a military surveillance unit helping control drug traffic in the tiny West Texas border town of Redford. He had apparently mistaken Hernandez--who was carrying a rifle and had fired it in the direction of the Marines--for one of the armed scouts who typically act as advance guards for drug smugglers...
...jury's decision, federal prosecutors said they will look into possibly bringing charges against Banuelos for civil rights violations. Still, the incident has left raw feelings in the community. "These people had no right to be here," says Melvin La Follette, a retired Episcopal priest and head of a Redford citizens group opposing the military's presence. "We were going blithely about our business, not knowing that Congress had handed away the civil rights of the people on the border." Former Marine Corporal Mark Otto, 27, who has served in surveillance missions in the border areas near Redford, defends...
...Captain Bodgit. In the winner's circle Baffert literally danced with the trophy. At the victory party afterward, Baffert kept telling Lewis, in homage to the ad campaign for one of the owner's beers, "I love you, man." After the Derby, Baffert says, he felt like the Robert Redford character in The Candidate who asks, after winning the Senate race, "What...