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...When Harold Ickes is having a good rich, wrathful week, probably every man, woman and child in the U.S. is against him. Honest, fearless, tough and shrewd--and loyal to his boss--Harold Ickes long ago earned his post as dog robber to the New Deal. He is the Scout who goes ahead, prowling the unexplored bushes of public opinion. He is the Whipping Boy who takes the blame whenever anything goes wrong. He is the Janitor who sweeps up the floor (usually using some victim as the broom). He is the Public Executioner, the Court Poisoner and the Bouncer...
...Atlanta Games. As an Air Force major, he pilots an F4-E Phantom II jet. In a previous assignment, he was an instructor of American literature at the Air Force Academy, teaching such classics as Moby Dick. He is also a Sunday school teacher, the leader of a Boy Scout troop, a husband and the father of five daughters. Is he superhuman? Not really, says Roy: "I feel like I'm just an ordinary guy who can do extraordinary things, thanks to a lot of hard work and dedication...
...back, saying they were "security" and hinting they were with the government. The hunter didn't believe them. But something about their eyes, not to mention their weapons, made him think arguing would be imprudent. He ran into other people forced to retreat by the armed men--a Boy Scout troop. After the hunter's call, agent Wall drove out to Tonto. Near an abandoned mine, he found a crater almost big enough to swallow a car. It was recent. Someone had been using powerful explosives...
...authorities can only put together the sequence of events that led to the evil of Dunblane. The start might be traced back as far as 1974, when Boy Scout officials dismissed Hamilton, then 21, for "inappropriate behavior" as leader of a local troop, and to subsequent incidents involving his attempts to organize boys' sports clubs in the area. Or it might have arisen from his fascination with handguns, which he obtained as long as 20 years ago and owned legally despite strict British laws. But whatever its origins, the culmination came at around 9 a.m. Wednesday when Hamilton left...
...reconnaissance team went to Bosnia to scout out accommodations for the 20,000 American troops that are to follow over the next few weeks. Meanwhile the U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to shut down its ill-starred 31/2-year peacekeeping missions in Croatia and Bosnia by Jan. 31. Ninety percent of the 22,000 U.N. troops now stationed in the former Yugoslavia will simply take off their Blue Helmets and switch over to the NATO force...