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...searing Mojave Desert. About 2,400 U.S. Marines conduct night maneuvers near the Twentynine Palms Base in California. Among them is Jason Rother, a 19-year-old lance corporal shipped in from North Carolina's Camp Lejeune for a special training exercise. While most of the Marines directing convoys are posted around the desert in pairs, Rother, inexplicably, is sent out to guide troop movements without an assigned buddy...
Sept. 1. Almost two days after Rother went into the desert, he is reported missing. The Marine Corps launches a 1,758-man search, complete with helicopters and jeeps equipped with infrared thermal imaging devices, to track him down. The searchers find Rother's helmet, flak jacket and backpack. They also discover an arrow, laid out on the ground with stones and pointing southeast, that Rother may have constructed to indicate the direction in which he was traveling. But after three days, the search party fails to find him. A month later, a second Marine-led search party...
...More than three months after Rother's disappearance, a third search party, composed of 130 civilian and Marine volunteers organized by the San Bernardino sheriff's office, comes across the corporal's M-16 rifle, camouflage clothes and ID card. Not far away, they soon discover dry human bones, presumably those of Rother, scattered across the desert floor. Struggling for survival in daytime temperatures that reached 120 degrees F, the doughty Marine may have made his way almost back to the base in Twentynine Palms. The remains are found only a heartbreaking two miles away...
...benefits, according to one estimate. Most important, the proposal would not underwrite nursing-home bills, which now cost 1.4 million Americans an average of $22,000 a year each, with only about 2% of that expense covered by private insurance. Other important costs that are not covered, says John Rother of the American Association of Retired Persons: "Outpatient prescription drugs that cost $7 billion a year, extra physicians' charges that total $2.6 billion, eyeglasses at $1 billion and dental costs at $2 billion." Robert Maxwell, vice president of A.A.R.P., told a Senate committee hearing earlier this month that the "Secretary...
...Rother's family and friends in Oklahoma are convinced that he was not shot by the Indians. Says Archbishop Charles A. Salatka of Oklahoma City: "From what we are able to learn from our reliable ecclesiastical and other sources, I don't think that's the way it happened. Knowing Father Rother the way I do, I just don't think he would put his life on the line to prevent a robbery." Adds the slain priest's father, Franz: "They had to force their way into his bedroom...