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Much of the information coming out of Komi is suspect. A local civilian defense official asserted firmly, for example, that "not one bird, not one animal has died" from the oil. That's highly implausible, even if it were possible to know such a thing. Bibikov insists the Pechora River was unaffected. Yet a spokesman for Greenpeace in Moscow says fishermen almost 300 miles downriver on the Pechora reported large amounts of oil in their nets last week...
Fortunately, Duran was tackled by three men while reloading his rifle. One of these civilian heroes was Robert Haines, who claims he was a candidate for the presidency in 1992. (He didn...
Israel's primary concern in the peace process is security. Israelis worry that a Palestinian self-rule area or state will serve as a platform for launching terrorist attacks against Israeli civilian and military targets...
...story, which reported that a CIA team had visited a Laotian camp but turned up nothing, appeared on May 21. Duchin sensed that senior civilian officials in the Pentagon were almost relieved that the story was out, and the CIA reconnaissance had proved nothing. "Nobody was eager to launch this operation," he recalls. The Pentagon reacted to the Post story by closing the entire operation down...
...troops occupied Haiti's National Palace this afternoon, helping supporters of returning President Jean-Bertrand Aristide free the government of junta influence down to the last paper-shuffler. Now that Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras has stepped down, Aristide's Cabinet ministers fired all employees hired under the junta's civilian figurehead government and took over ministry offices. Aristide, meanwhile, plans to return to Haiti in grand style Saturday, with three planes stuffed with so many guests that the State Department is complaining. In addition to Secretary of State Warren Christopher, the party includes the Rev. Jesse Jackson, TransAfrica director Randall...