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...This is what it was like covering George Bush last week in Shanghai, as he visited the coast city for the Asia-Pacific Economic Conference. What was planned to have been a glorious coming out party for China in the guise of a trade summit, was now dominated by the issue of terror, and the President's hosts were not going to let him get a paper cut on their watch - which is why we were getting so much attention. For Bush, the pre-war purpose of the visit was a multi- country stature-building jaunt for a president...
...becomes a sideshow, when soldiers must hit the ground and fight and everyone else braces for something terrible. This war turned last Thursday night. Throughout the day, combat helicopters had carried U.S. special-operations troops ashore from the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk, anchored in the Arabian Sea off the southern coast of Pakistan. The forces choppered over miles of desert terrain to an airstrip at Dalbandin, close to Pakistan's secret underground nuclear-test site and just south of the Afghan border. There they prepared to be delivered into Taliban-controlled territory in Afghanistan to begin a furtive ground...
...most people couldn’t find words for it. There was a surge of actual patriotism, by which I mean a sort of a visceral love of the place, the home, the family. But then that got overtaken by jingoism. I had to go to the West Coast a week after the attacks so I was gone for a week, and when I came back to my astonishment New York was full of flags. It happened during the second week. I mean, I couldn’t believe it, they were all over, every place you looked there...
Oman Port The U.S. has been given access to a modern air base just off the coast of Oman...
...Fort Lauderdale Convention and Visitors Bureau has launched a massive direct-mail campaign throughout the Southeast. Las Vegas is directing a $13 million advertising effort at markets within a 750-mile radius. One week after the terror attacks, the management at the tony Canyon Ranch spa persuaded 67 East Coast-based guests who would have canceled flights to its Tucson, Ariz., resort to drive instead to the branch in Lenox, Mass...