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...pitch blackness, one Black Hawk helicopter got caught on a sand dune near the Dalbandin runway, lost its balance and flopped over, killing two crew members and injuring three others, according to a Pakistani witness. American servicemen who returned safely to Dalbandin were so jittery that they refused to brief Pakistani military officers unless the officers removed their gun holsters before approaching the helicopters. Elsewhere in Afghanistan, bands of U.S. troops continued their covert search-and-destroy missions. The ground...
Lt.Gen. Shaul Mofaz sat before a closed-door meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee last week to brief lawmakers on Israel's military operations deep inside six West Bank towns that are supposed to be under the control of Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority. Unlike the strong condemnation of Israel's violent incursions voiced by the Bush administration, Mofaz found some at the Knesset secret hearing urging him to take the army he heads further into the Palestinian towns...
...sixties spelled an end, too, for the art of Yoko Ono. After a retrospective in 1971 at the Whitney, Ono focused on music and video composition until a brief return to the art world in 1988 with some bronze casts of earlier works. Scattered pieces in the 90s are of interest (though few are included at MIT), but lack the visionary drama of her first events and performances. Instead, Ono’s idealistic faith in shared values and experiences has been channeled into new works that, lacking her former intellectual rigor, are more consolatory than conceptual...
...Nothing too personal. A very general, brief overview, nothing too specific. You know the old baseball analogy—that always works...
...Pakistan, for example, which will bear the brunt of the refugee load, has always been a reluctant partner in a war it had hoped would be brief and surgical. It is now increasingly plain that this will be neither, and the incident last week in which a U.S. Special Forces helicopter took ground fire near a base inside Pakistan highlighted the potential domestic crisis General Musharraf faces for offering his support. Not surprisingly, the general is urging the U.S. to end its bombing campaign by Ramadan. The same demand has been echoed at the opposite end of the region...