Word: smolen
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Three Crimson swimmers failed to qualify in yesterday's activity, and no one from Harvard entered the individual medley. Steve Baumgart barely missed making it to the finals in the breaststroke. John Burris in the backstroke and Jim Smolen in the 200-yard free were also eliminated in the afternoon...
With the score 45-25, Harvard's Toby Gerhart produced a win in the 1000-yard free, with teammate Jim Smolen grabbing third. Smolen, a sophomore, was swimming for the first time since injuring his shoulder at West Point on December 7. Smolen was also third in the 200-yard free, and he may provide some of the depth which Harvard needs...
kidnaped U.S. Air Force Lieut. Colonel Michael Smolen and announced that it was Troi's life or Smolen's (TIME, Oct. 16). But last week Smolen was released unharmed in Caracas, while in Saigon, Troi was tied to a post in the garden of Saigon's Chi Hoa prison and executed by a Khanh firing squad...
Keeping the Promise. Lieut. Colonel Michael Smolen, 44, deputy chief of the U.S. Air Force mission in Venezuela, lives in the Bello Monte section of Caracas, only four blocks from where Colonel James K. Chenault was kidnaped last year. Ever since then, occasional threats have promised another kidnaping, and one afternoon last week Smolen was specifically fingered. To be on the safe side, Mission Chief Colonel Henry Choate, 47, came by the next morning to give him a lift to work. Even so, the kidnaping took only 20 seconds. As Smolen was walking to Choate...
Police immediately threw up roadblocks, with no luck. The Chevy soon appeared, however, abandoned a block from the leftist-ridden Central University. Then, at 3:30 p.m., the phone rang in the Caracas office of the Associated Press. The F.A.L.N., said the caller, had Smolen. He would be released only when Nguyen Van Troi was released. And who is Nguyen Van Troi? He is the Viet Cong terrorist who was caught trying to assassinate U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara with a planted bomb in Saigon last May. Troi, 17, is sentenced to die this Thursday. If he is executed, warned...