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...when Gary Ridgway first passed through the investigation, he was barely noticed. On the evening of April 30, 1983, Marie Malvar, 18, got into a pickup with a male driver on the strip. Her boyfriend Bobby Woods was watching, and followed the pickup until he lost sight of it at a red light. When Malvar failed to come home, Woods and her father Jose went looking for the pickup, which had a distinctive spot of primer on the door. After half a day's driving around the area, they found what Woods thought was the pickup, parked in front...
They spent five hours together, and President Bush gave Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah a pickup-truck tour of his Texas ranch. At the end of the visit, Bush avowed that the two leaders had forged a "strong, personal bond." But the Crown Prince and the President were unable to agree to a joint statement at Crawford, Texas, last week, which gave the long and complex U.S.-Saudi relationship another twist...
...carriers and long-range bombers alone. But so far, Istanbul is uncommitted, and keeping large numbers of planes in the air for long distances or landing them on ships puts them at risks that the Pentagon would rather avoid. President Bush must be hoping the Crown Prince enjoyed that pickup ride...
...again on Crockett’s arm to lead the Crimson pitching squad. The right-hander fanned a record 17 batters and threw 140 pitches in a 6-5 loss to Brown last Saturday. He came on in relief Tuesday to register the final two outs, both strikeouts, and pickup...
...close encounter in Bridges. The two principals are spending their twilight years many miles apart: Robert Kincaid on an island in Puget Sound; Francesca Johnson, now a widow, dreaming away the long evenings on her Iowa farm. Bored with retirement and pushing 70, Kincaid sets off in his beloved pickup to see the fateful Roseman Bridge one last time. There's tension in the air, but not because we expect the two lovers to meet again--Waller made it clear in Bridges that they never do. The tension comes from two new characters: Wynn McMillan, a cello-playing old flame...