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...terrorist cells are still operating in Saudi Arabia despite a frenetic investigation and at least 11 arrests since the May 12 Riyadh bombing, a senior official close to the dragnet tells TIME. But a new spirit of cooperation between the two countries has developed since the attack, and the bitter U.S./Saudi recriminations that followed the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing and continued after 9/11 appear to be over...
...idea what they were stealing. But the looters were often armed and came from villages known for their criminal gangs - "many" looters were killed in clashes with Marines, military sources say. Meanwhile Dr. Faiz Al Berkdar, the Saddam-era director general of the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission, and a bitter critic of the U.S., claims to have heard that some pilfered isotopes "are already in Iran...
...Robert Carlyle (The Full Monty) avoids both traps. His Hitler is a humorless paranoid whose anti-Jewish rants are laughed off by his comrades in the trenches of WW I. But after the war, he discovers his gift for rabble-rousing. He is an artist of grievance, and in bitter, between-the-wars Germany, that is enough to gain power--that, plus luck and savvy p.r. (which includes trimming his mustache so that his look will be memorable, as Lenin...
...long and often bitter relationship between the Big Three and the UAW means that their work practices are rooted not in mutual trust but in a system of sometimes picky rules. A "skilled tradesman" may be required to change a fuse in an assembly-line machine, a task that an assembly worker could easily be trained to perform. Work rules differ from plant to plant because agreements are negotiated with local union leaders. If a tradesman notices a line worker fiddling with equipment, he may file a grievance, claiming that his job is being undercut by a lower-paid employee...
Those survivors who spoke to TIME are in anything but a fighting mood. They seem too occupied with absorbing their fate to plot a next move. Says Karim, the colonel: "This is very bitter. I am 39. I was brought up with Saddam's regime. I may not have liked it, but I had plans--to buy a house--and suddenly everything changed. The future is dark." Azed, the captain who ran from Suwayrah, sits in his uncle's house in Baghdad, smoking cigarettes and drinking tea. "What happened shocked everyone," he says. "We had heard about the resistance from...