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When the moment is right, say leaders of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (N.C.R.), the rebels' civilian arm, the N.L.A. will roll across the border in support of a general uprising against the fundamentalist Iranian government. "We intend to combine the army with the rising of social unrest to sweep away the mullahs," N.C.R. president Maryam Rajavi told Time. "The mullahs are a regime that doesn't understand any language other than force and power." N.C.R. leaders believe, perhaps too optimistically, that burgeoning discontent with Iran's faltering economy, which has led to open protests and riots...
...unknown mission." Although Tompkins wrote that he had "uncovered no hard evidence that Army Intelligence played any role in King's assassination," Pepper takes the tale to the races. Pepper writes that the soldiers were in Memphis to shoot King--and his deputy Andrew Young--if the hired civilian gunman who actually fired the fatal shot had missed. All of the witnesses Pepper claims can back up this story are dead, in hiding or unwilling to come forward--so there is no way for anyone else to question them...
Even though a civilian is three times as likely to be caught in the middle of a convenience-store stickup as in a bank heist, bank crime is a big image problem for both cities and banks. Memphis, Tennessee, where bank robberies doubled last year, has set up a task force to fight the trend. In Orlando, banks have banded together to share security costs and put up a $90,000 reward. And banks everywhere are rethinking design and location factors that make branches not only consumer friendly but robber friendly as well, such as their being scattered along freeways...
...front line in Albania's armed rebellion begins about 25 miles north of the Adriatic port city of Vlora. There, posted across a series of low ridges, about 100 men and boys in civilian clothes, armed with rifles and machine guns, keep watch over the main coastal road, halting the few cars on the move, checking documents and asking questions. The tall man in charge of the group is Krenar Hoxha, who says, "We are waiting in the hills to repel the army of Berisha." Young insurgents fire their weapons into the air and shout, "Down with Berisha...
...designed to make good on a Bucaram campaign pledge to give every school-age child a free backpack. Of 400,000 ba ckpacks ordered from Colombia, only 3,000 arrived. The money, of course, is gone. Bucaram continues to maintain he is the victim of political persecution by a "civilian dictatorship" that has taken over Ecuador--and that he was the nation's "most honest president" the last decade. If nothing else, he's probably been the best compensated...