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The project was known simply as the Outpost Mission -- one of the cold war's most closely guarded secrets. Beginning in the mid-1950s, an elite unit of helicopter pilots and crew, the 2857th Test Squadron, was stationed at Olmsted Air Force Base in Pennsylvania posing as a rescue team...
Outpost Mission was one of the cold war's most closely guarded secrets. Senior U.S. officials spent their lives devising plans to prepare for the unthinkable -- nuclear war.
The flip side of Thomas' courtroom activism is his almost cloistered personal life. Friends say the Anita Hill episode left him "shattered" and "guarded," leading him to shun public appearances. He is now instinctively so averse to the press, they say, that he's no longer much of a newspaper...
The word Ndoki (pronounced en-doe-key) means "sorcerer" in Lingala, and this is indeed an enchanted, mysterious place. Guarded by swamps to the south and east, hills to the north and the forbidding Ndoki River to the west, the region is almost inaccessible. Pygmies have crisscrossed central Africa for...
Senior writer Martha Duffy has had her share of reluctant interview subjects. Saul Bellow was grouchy; Robert Penn Warren was shy. This week's Profile subject -- Irish President Mary Robinson -- was a different kind of challenge for Duffy, who usually writes about artists and their craft. "Robinson was | more guarded...