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When the marines stripped Lieut. Colonel Odin Leberman of his command of the corps' lone V-22 Osprey squadron, Leberman admitted that he had told his mechanics to falsify maintenance records to make the troubled aircraft look better. The Osprey, despite 18 years of work and a $12 billion taxpayer investment, needed all the help it could get. Two crashes in the space of eight months had killed 23 Marines, aggravating concerns at the Pentagon about the aircraft's reliability as it weighed going into full-scale production. But now, as the Pentagon begins full-blown probes into both...
...such threats in the hope that its increasing strength will render the warlords irrelevant. It has enticed some 5,000 of the estimated 20,000 militiamen around Mogadishu into five "demobilization" camps where they will be retrained as the new national army. "Some of them have good discipline," says Colonel Ali Hashi, head of demobilization in the city. Hashi says the government controls 180 of the 300-odd "technicals"--trucks and pickups with rear-mounted antiaircraft and antitank guns--in the city. Afrah, however, scoffs at the notion that warlord power is slipping. "This is our business," he says...
Thirteen of a thousand faces: center, as Capt. Henry St. James (The Captain's Paradise, 1953). Clockwise from top left: Herbert Pocket (Great Expectations, 1946); Agatha d'Ascoyne (Kind Hearts and Coronets, 1949); Professor Marcus (The Ladykillers, 1955); Colonel Nicholson (The Bridge on the River Kwai, 1957) General Yevgraf Zhivago (Dr. Zhivago, 1965); Adolf Hitler (Hitler: The Last Ten Days, 1973); Professor Godbole (A Passage to India, 1984); Sigmund Freud (Lovesick, 1983); George Smiley (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, 1980); Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (Star Wars, 1977); King Charles I (Cromwell, 1970); Prince Feisal (Lawrence of Arabia...
...Former colonel of the Syrian army and follower in his father's footsteps...
DIED. WERNER KLEMPERER, 80, Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany who won two Emmys for his portrayal of the bumbling Nazi prison-camp commandant Colonel Klink on Hogan's Heroes; in New York City. After the prime-time series ended in 1971, he worked as an orchestral narrator with nearly every major U.S. symphony orchestra, and was nominated for a Tony in 1988 for his role as Jewish shopkeeper Herr Schultz in a revival of Cabaret...