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...Beach-Bunker Bingo The soldier glared as he came out of the bunker, AK-47 first. His comrades watched from behind mounted machine guns as he leaned down and asked curt questions. Where were we going? How long would we stay? He stood up, squinted at our bags, and finally waved us through, convinced we weren't guerrilla operatives. We were just going to the beach...
...proposed new thinking substantially lowers the threshold for launching nuclear strikes - it even calls for a new generation of tactical "bunker-buster" nukes to destroy underground arsenals of biological weapons. Not exactly a doomsday weapon of last resort. And the idea of giving nuclear weapons a more everyday function in military thinking has certainly shocked both America's allies and its adversaries...
Arafat didn't risk going to bed. In public, his aides boasted that he stayed in his bunker on al-Irsal Street, defiantly working through the attacks and refusing pleas from his friends to move to another location in Ramallah. "He doesn't want to be seen running from the Israelis," a senior adviser told TIME. But privately, Arafat and his cabinet took "preventive measures" to save themselves. And Arafat, the aide says, "feels depressed and nervous...
...Golden Team" that inflicted on England its first defeat at home by an overseas side when it beat them 6-3 at Wembley Stadium in 1953; in Budapest. DIED. TRAUDL JUNGE, 81, Adolf Hitler's secretary from 1942-45, who took his last will and testament in a Berlin bunker two days before he committed suicide; in Munich. Junge died hours after a documentary on her life had premiered at the Berlin Film Festival. DIED. MICK TUCKER, 54, drummer with leading 1970s British glam-rock band The Sweet, which had a string of hits with songs such...
...Arafat didn't risk going to bed. In public, his aides boasted that he stayed in his bunker on al-Irsal Street, defiantly working through the attacks and refusing pleas from his friends to move to another location in Ramallah. "He doesn't want to be seen running from the Israelis," a senior adviser told Time. But privately, Arafat and his cabinet took "preventive measures" to save themselves. And Arafat, the aide says, "feels depressed and nervous...