Word: swamp
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...Army Ranger training exercise killed four soldiers at Florida's Eglin Air Force Base. The trainees died after spending several hours in chilly chest-high swamp waters. The men had previously completed training in rugged forest, desert and mountain terrains. Four separate investigations of the deaths are under...
...Schechtman, both in their early 40s, recently built a new house in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, and wanted to upgrade all the major appliances on a $10,000 budget. Says Cheryll: "We're pretty trusting about what Consumer Reports recommends." But the exponential growth of new products threatens to swamp the magazine that was established to rank them for the buying public. Hundreds of new computer-software programs and games appeared in the months preceding the last Christmas buying season. "We're not going to test software in the foreseeable future," admits CR's Alan Lefkow. "It is beyond this...
...coin and inserted it into a slit cut into his sneakers; he transferred the other onto an audio cassette and slipped it into his Walkman. Inspectors at Hanoi's Noi Bai Airport did not discover either tape before Schweitzer boarded a flight to Bangkok. The operation, code named ``Swamp Ranger,'' was a success...
Upon his return to Hanoi, operation ``Swamp Ranger'' was almost blown before it started. A Pentagon official, in the capital as part of an official POW task force, had just presented the Foreign Ministry with photographs of documents in the Central Military Museum and ``demanded that we provide everything,'' a furious Colonel Dai told Schweitzer. The photos had been taken by Schweitzer and turned over to the Pentagon. The task-force members were unaware of Schweitzer's secret mission, McConnell writes. ``How did American intelligence get copies of your pictures?'' Colonel Dai demanded, suspecting that Schweitzer was a spy. After...
...Colombian jetliner crashed near Cartagena, killing all 53 of its passengers but one -- a nine-year-old girl who suffered only a broken shoulder after the crash landing in a swamp. It was "a miracle from God," according to Colombia's civil aviation director...