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While he had reached the rank of sergeant in the U.S. Army, Switzler said, he never served as a captain and had never been a formal member of the U.S. Army Special Forces as claimed. While he did serve in Korea, Switzler said, he only visited Vietnam instead of serving there as claimed...
...desert air of Arizona reinforces the sense of being cleansed. Whatever the surroundings, the wake-up call likely comes at 6 a.m., and after a breakfast that could be served in a thimble and saucer, the hectic dawn-to- dusk pace rivals anything ever dreamed up by a drill sergeant. "By the end of the day," declares Diane Sepler, 46, a Miami interior designer who is a happy devotee of such regimens, "I'm like a noodle...
...party from Oregon Episcopal was not to be that lucky. Just before the search was called off Thursday, an Air Force sergeant happened onto a backpack at the 8,300-ft. level. There searchers located the remaining climbers, by then buried three days under deep snow. They swiftly airlifted all eight to Portland hospitals. Doctors revived two students. The six others were dead. The tragedy was Mount Hood's worst...
...Society in West Berlin (blown up on March 29), an El Al jet en route from London to Tel Aviv with 360 aboard (saved by an alert El Al baggage inspector), and possibly the La Belle discotheque, also in West Berlin (destroyed on April 5, killing a U.S. Army sergeant and a Turkish woman and injuring 230). The prime suspects are two Syrian-trained Palestinian brothers, Achmed Nawaf Mansour Hazi and Nezar Nawaf Mansour Hindawi...
...there are no sins of omission in fiction. A novelist can leave out whatever he wishes. But having dealt with Los Alamos espionage, Smith risks breaking his illusion of authenticity by neglecting key figures. He is far more effective with Pena, racked between his heritage and his ambitions. The sergeant is a winning creation, even though he stretches belief by conducting a lot of personal business as a noncom assigned to a supersecret project: trysting with Fraulein Weiss, trying to buy a nightclub, getting into shape for a high-stakes boxing match, taking care of Indian affairs and sidetracking Captain...