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...even to those determined not to get involved, the reach of the war was inescapable. Xuong Lu did not escape the war's reach. His skill as a machinist meant that the South Vietnamese army asked him to go to combat zones to help repair critical equipment. He would be away sometimes for a month or more at a time, and occasionally witnessed heavy fighting. When her husband was away, Nu sold cigarettes on the streets of Saigon to support their two children. By 1974, Xuong's concerns about the war's course had grown. He had never thought...
...court, he said John had begun his contacts with the KGB in a simple way: "He drove to Washington and parked down from the Russian embassy for a couple of nights." Soviet agents noticed him and made contact. Arthur said that early in 1980, after the brothers' electronic repair shop went broke, John told him how he could make a lot of money. At the time, Arthur was feeling very depressed. "We were sitting outside in his pickup truck," Arthur told the federal agents. "I said I could cry. So he said, 'Come on, take a walk.'" Then John turned...
Mazza—who underwent surgery to repair torn ligaments in his left thumb on Feb. 9—returned to the field on the first day of practice at full-strength and well-ahead of schedule, participating in contact drills that he’d initially been projected to miss for the duration of spring ball...
...situation in Africa has deteriorated, some foreign donors have responded with more aid. A consortium that includes the U.S. and the European Community is helping repair Sudan's washed-out rail line. The Community and several member countries have agreed to provide air and truck transportation to meet shortages created by rail problems...
File cabinets. Metal desks. Brass fire nozzles worth $85 each. A $5,000 oscilloscope. All were dumped into the ocean from the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk because its sailors were too lazy to return the items to the vessel's storerooms or to do the needed minor repair work...