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...foreign policy successes, his final years were overshadowed by scandal. He had become committed to finding a way to free American hostages held in Lebanon. In 1985 his National Security Adviser, Robert (Bud) McFarlane, oversaw a scheme in which Israel, as a stand-in for the U.S., would provide TOW antitank missiles to an Iranian arms dealer in exchange for help in obtaining the release of hostages. Did Reagan, who had repeatedly declared he would make no deals with Iran or terrorists, agree to this one? McFarlane later testified that he did. Reagan said he couldn't remember. After...
...rush was not to last. Botterill and Ruggiero returned for the 2002-2003 campaign with fellow Olympian Julie Chu in tow, gobbling up the prime scoring opportunities Corriero had so deftly exploited the season before...
...plan had initially been for Kennedy’s father to tow Victura back from Nantucket after the races, but Culver says that the weather was too stormy. So he and Kennedy sailed back themselves, arriving after midnight...
...could the Allies rely on superior technology to win the day, though being able to listen in on coded German communications certainly helped. There was no Kevlar; there were no nightscopes, no cruise missiles or stealth fighters. Instead, Allied engineers invented artificial harbors to tow across the channel and moor once the beaches were won; sawtooth steel tusks were attached to the front of tanks to cut through the Normandy hedgerows; paratroopers used the little clickers that sound like crickets to find one another in the dark. Most of their radios and 60% of their supplies didn't survive...
...freedom to change plans at lightning speed (a necessity for kids in tow), hire your own vehicle. May and June are the recommended months for travel, before hordes of other self-drive tourists clog up the roads, hotels and restaurants. Early summer is also the time when the rape fields are in full bloom, allowing children and adults alike to marvel at the blaze of yellow...