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Police called in an FBI profiler from Quantico, Va., to help them narrow their search. His profile suggested the killer felt humiliated by women, was an outdoorsman who knew the local countryside well and may have had some religious motives. Reichert and his men thought the profile was too broad to be very useful. And there wasn't much help coming from the county coffers. For 18 months, the cops could not get special funding for a full-scale investigation of the murders. Many people in Seattle felt the problem was not so much the killer but rather the proliferation...
...Because fewer people want to fly, cruise lines are bringing their ships Stateside and offering departures from new ports, including Baltimore, Md., and Norfolk, Va. They're also offering shorter cruises, to such familiar spots as the Caribbean, Alaska and Hawaii...
DIED. SAM SNEAD, 89, plainspoken golf great known for his straw hat and smooth swing, called the "sweetest" in the game; in Hot Springs, Va. Slammin' Sam, as he was dubbed, learned to play in a cow pasture using sticks as clubs. He won a record 81 PGA Tour events (17 of them after he had turned 40), including three PGA championships, three Masters and a British Open. "Watching Sam Snead practice hitting golf balls," said fellow pro John Schlee, "is like watching a fish practice swimming...
...plan--masterminded by Ramzi Yousef, who had also plotted the 1993 World Trade Center bombing--for mass hijackings of American planes over the Pacific. Evidence developed during the investigation of Yousef and his partner, Abdul Hakim Murad, uncovered a plan to crash a plane into CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. And as long ago as 1994, in an incident that is well known among terrorism experts, French authorities foiled a plot by the Algerian Armed Islamic Group to fly an airliner into the Eiffel Tower. "Since 1994," says a French investigator into al-Qaeda cases, "we should all have been...
SENTENCED. ROBERT HANSSEN, 58, ex-FBI counterintelligence expert who pleaded guilty, in exchange for avoiding the death penalty, to providing thousands of classified U.S. intelligence documents to the Russians; to life in prison with no possibility of parole; in a federal court in Alexandria, Va. Believed to be one of the most damaging spies in U.S. history, Hanssen said: "I apologize for my behavior. I am shamed...