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...select group of 50 pilgrims, including Dickerson, is led into the farmhouse where they join Nancy Fowler, 43, a former nurse who first saw the visions of Mary and Jesus five years ago. Together they wait and watch and pray. "She is descending," Fowler whispers. Outside, an announcer informs the crowd, "Our blessed Mother is here." Instantly, the chanting drops to a hush...
After all the fuss over possible POWs in Russia and Vietnam, a U.S. Senator just back from Pyongyang says hundreds of American servicemen captured during the Korean War were sent to China and never returned. Bob Smith, a New Hampshire Republican, vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, said, "Every single Korean official we talked to confirmed" that U.S. prisoners of war had been sent to China. "They weren't returned," he said. Beijing has repeatedly denied that China kept any American POWs except for 21 who asked to stay...
...WERE TO SELECT AN AMBASsador of European culture, it might be Catherine Deneuve. If you were to choose a film to express the agony and ambiguity of Vietnam in this century, it should be Indochine...
...SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON POW/MIA AFFAIRS WILL HEAR testimony this week from relatives of missing American servicemen who claim they have been defrauded of millions of dollars by MIA HUNTERS, who in some cases promised to bring the missing men home alive. But the committee is running out of time to investigate such claims. Lawyers for several of the MIA hunters in question have raised legal objections that may tie up the probe until the committee's mandate expires...
...Harvard and places like Harvard self-select for just the kind of person who is susceptible to an eating disorder," she says...