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Since the American intervention began, net Iraqi deaths are down something like 75 percent—and that is during a period of all-out war between insurgents and three new Iraqi governments, a period in which al-Qaeda declared Iraq the headquarters for global terrorism...
...more than a year, a band of white supremacists known as the Order has waged its own private war against the "Zionist Occupation Government" of the U.S. In Seattle last week, federal officials continued their all-out attack on the neo-Nazi gang, announcing the indictment of 23 members under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). The indictment charges that members of the Order were responsible for crimes including counterfeiting, armored-car robberies and two murders, one of them the assassination of radio Talk-Show Host Alan Berg in Denver. It was the first time the RICO statute...
...infection with an AlDS-like virus, the monkeys are perfectly healthy. This is not true of rhesus monkeys, which develop AlDS-like symptoms when infected. Says Essex: "The African greens may have evolved a mechanism to control the virus." This mechanism of immunity, once understood, could help scientists in their all-out battle, particularly in the search for a vaccine. Nonetheless, most researchers believe that AIDS will remain a threat for decades. Says Peter Fischinger of the National Cancer Institute: "We have here a very tough opponent." --By Claudia Wallis. Reported by Christine Gorman and B. Russell Leavitt/Atlanta
...only skater to lose his cool, though the uneven officiating in the middle frame allowed several offenders on both sides to go unpunished, despite their egregious infractions, as play spiraled out of control. At times, minor tussles that did not draw a whistle from referee Dan Murphy escalated into all-out wrestling matches, with helmets torn off, headlocks employed, and punches thrown as play continued away from the scuffle...
...Beslan school seizure. And last month Basayev warned that he was planning more "Beslan-type" operations. For men like this, Maskhadov's death is a double gift. It provides the resistance with a new national hero, and it removes the one man who tried to prevent them from waging all-out war on Russia and its people...