Word: afghanistan
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...sent the Tomahawks after the terrorist network of Osama bin Laden. The U.S. Navy launched about 80 of them--at $750,000 each, that's some $60 million. What bang did Clinton get for his bucks? The missiles tore up some sheds and shacks at a training area in Afghanistan and demolished a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan, which might or might not have been producing nerve-gas ingredients. The Tomahawks did not severely disrupt the bin Laden operation. But they gave the Administration the appearance of taking action in its war against terrorism. Best of all, no Americans...
...money for political campaigns. Nothing eleventh hour about the most recent efforts of JAY LENO and his wife MAVIS. The couple held a meeting last week in their Beverly Hills, Calif., home to raise $500,000 and plan early strategy for a publicity campaign to end "gender apartheid in Afghanistan." Industry heavyweight SID SCHEINBERG and actress TERI GARR were among the 45 people who attended. The group aims to stop corporate investment and to cease recognition by any nation of the Taliban government, which has barred women from schooling and work. Mavis Leno has gone beyond giving parties. Two weeks...
...rule. The Pakistani military begs to differ. Worrying that Sharif is using religion as cover for grander designs, the Army's chief, General Jehangin Karomat, advocates "a direct role for the military in running the country." To see where this is may be heading let us look towards Afghanistan, a country where government, the military and Islamic fundamentalists are one and the same...
...past zippergate, Henry Hyde, and the daily spin-cycle that produces our national headlines to the real news--in the international section. A cursory glance will yield an exciting array of stories: the beginnings of a fundamentalist revolution in an Islamic nuclear power, a hot war between Iran and Afghanistan and tales of a genocide in the Western world...
...Taliban Afghanistan, Islamic fundamentalists make the Christian Coalition look like the ACLU. After a brutal takeover, women were-ordered to go home-and stay there. Should they desire to journey outside they must cover themselves from head to toe and be in the company of a male relative at all times. So what if you're one of 30,000 widows of fallen soldiers and have to take your sick child to the hospital? Sorry. Bang. Dead. Or at least that's what happened last week to one poor mother trying to carry her critically ill infant to medical help...