Word: trailed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flak jacket. His field pack weighs 40 lbs., and the day is surpassingly hot. The lance corporal his buddies call "Red" is sweating heavily. His squad leader, not much older than McClellan, gives a hand signal, and the patrol moves off the road and down a narrow trail. Just the beginning of another very long day in the Republic of Vietnam. Says McClellan, now a 19- year veteran of the San Francisco police force: "I remember individual days there in perfect sequence like it was yesterday...
...after U.S. Ambassador Graham Martin slipped away in the predawn darkness of a collapsing Saigon, the U.S. has yet to establish diplomatic relations with the government of Vietnam. Washington continues to act as if Hanoi had sent its troops to invade Virginia instead of down the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Since 1975, the U.S. has imposed a trade embargo against Vietnam that has been more effective than the mining of Haiphong harbor ever was. It has helped keep Vietnam's badly managed economy on its knees, which in turn has encouraged a steady flow of refugees to Hong Kong...
...Also, walk around Cambridge or go into Boston. Harvard's location is an often overlooked paradise. Pick up lasagna in the North End. Walk the Freedom Trail. Go Dancing at a club...
...Comeback Trail...
...trail of bogus checks led across three Southern states, from a few that were passed in Louisiana, to a flood of nearly 100 that turned up in Tuscaloosa, Ala. They totaled in the tens of thousands of dollars, and all were tracked down to one place: a private home in Vicksburg, Miss. There, police discovered a trove of high-tech gear that included a document scanner, a laser printer, an IBM-compatible computer and a disk filled with digitized checks, drivers' licenses and department store IDs. "The guy could copy anything he wanted," says Detective Reggie McCann of the Jackson...