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...being coordinated not just by Greek authorities but also by a seven-member intelligence Advisory Group that includes the U.S., Britain, France and Israel. Last month, NATO agreed to provide 24-hour AWACS surveillance. U.S. battleships will be steaming offshore. Israeli intelligence teams are consulting on the suicide bomber threat; Russian experts are advising on Chechen-style suicide attacks. Athens is supposed to be the best defended Games ever. Then three bombs go off right behind a police station. Although the blasts didn't injure, much less kill, anybody, they hurt global confidence in all of those elaborate security measures...
...Israeli Assembly, charged that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had ordered the strike to bolster his standing with rightist supporters. But an Israeli military spokesman countered that Rantisi had been "directly responsible for the deaths of scores of Israelis." The assassination came just hours after a Palestinian suicide bomber killed himself and an Israeli guard at a Gaza border crossing. Hamas was one of two groups that claimed responsibility...
...second interview ever: "There was my mother-in-law's body, lying by our side. Basically, I felt that most probably Rajiv would end up the same way." She was right. Rajiv won office, becoming the third Nehru-Gandhi Prime Minister, but in May 1991 a Tamil Tiger suicide bomber killed the 46-year-old over the Indian army's 1987-90 incursion into Sri Lanka. It took six years and an internal party crisis that threatened to split Congress before Sonia, too, bent to that same Gandhian sense of obligation and agreed to take her husband's place...
...taxes to outfit its police, fire and emergency-services personnel. On top of that, the legislature has never been too generous. Until recently, it wasn't unusual for a fire station to hold a bake sale to raise money. Last summer, after a vintage World War II--era German bomber crashed into a building in Cheyenne, fire, ambulance and airport personnel could not talk to one another over their radios because they use different equipment. "We eventually ended up sending runners--like the Greeks," says Brian Grimm, communications officer for the state office of homeland security...
Some projects don't need living stars. The Fight, a documentary awaiting distribution, looks at the 1938 bout between the Brown Bomber and rival Max Schmeling