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...American post exchange in Frankfurt is reserved for U.S. servicemen and their dependents, and patrons must pass through a military-police checkpoint to enter. No such restrictions apply to the vicinity around the PX, however, and it was there last week that terrorists struck. As customers went about their pre-Thanksgiving shopping, a bomb hidden in a car parked about 250 yards from the PX exploded, injuring 35 people, most of them Americans. The attack was the 19th this year against U.S. military posts in West Germany. On Aug. 8, two Americans were killed and 20 injured at the Rhein...
Sporting a smart bow tie and clad in his best dark blue suit, the slender young man with carefully combed hair was nervous as he approached the border checkpoint. Officially, his exit visa was for six months' study in Germany, but he knew that he would not return. His leather suitcase was packed with six shirts, half a dozen butterfly ties, several pairs of socks and a formal cutaway suit. Hidden in his impeccably polished shoes, however, were hundreds of American dollars. In post-revolutionary Russia, he feared being imprisoned or shot for currency smuggling. But it was too late...
...drab security checkpoint in the old Executive Office Building, another problem arises. "Is there a mistake?" asks Wanda. "The last time we came to the White House, we entered through the front door with those lovely pillars. Now they bring us to the servants' entrance." Inside the White House, she is still unmollified. "I wish there were something I could do to change your mood for the better," says USIA Director Charles Z. Wick. "There is," she replies. "You can send me back to New York immediately...
...Administration declared Iran part of an "axis of evil," the ruling clerics lashed out at home, enforcing social strictures with such vigor that we wouldn't leave parties without first chewing several pieces of gum to conceal the alcohol on our breath, in case we encountered a checkpoint run by Islamic paramilitaries. When the rhetoric cooled, the system turned its sights back to its angry young people and essentially decided to stanch their discontent by buying them off. While continuing to brutally suppress all political dissent, the mullahs boosted subsidies on gas and household commodities. But most significant, they began...
...near-certain deployment into a combat zone. All they get in exchange are assurances that their country needs them, that they are filling a timeless and revered role. June Harting, whose son Jay, West Point Class of '98, was killed with his classmate and friend Steven Frank at a checkpoint in Iraq last month, summed the West Point mentality the best: "What people don't understand," she told me by phone as she drove to New York to bury her son in West Point's cemetery, "is that these kids are like from a hundred years ago. Their values...