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...among his colleagues. "He did what he was told," says a former high-ranking intelligence officer. Remarkably, in 1975, after getting his law degree in Leningrad, Putin entered the KGB and was sent abroad on his first posting. "It couldn't have been pure luck," says retired KGB Lieut. Colonel Konstantin Preobrazhensky. "He must have had family connections." As the U.S.S.R. unwound, Putin returned to Leningrad and rose through the city system to national power...
Moscow has more than 5,000 federal soldiers in Dagestan, along with nearly 300 pieces of armor, 50 pieces of heavy artillery, and 30 Grad missile launchers. "This force is as formidable as it is mismanaged," comments retired Colonel Victor Baranets, a military analyst. Says an eyewitness: "The troops have neither maps nor communication. They wear broken boots and mended fatigues. They don't have warm clothes or hot food...
ARRAIGNED. LAURIE HIETT, 36, wife of the U.S. Army colonel leading the antidrug war in Colombia; on charges of conspiring to ship cocaine to the U.S.; in New York City. She denies the allegations...
...laughs in the tiny sidewalk crowd as the huge Forbes buses glided out of town. A couple of people who had once played in the Greenfield marching band debated what music the bus loudspeaker had been playing when the caravan arrived at the town square. They voted for the Colonel Bogey March...
Messy stuff, cocaine ? particularly when you?re fighting a war against it. Even as Colonel James Hiett headed up U.S. anti-drug efforts in Colombia, his wife is reported to have been mailing packages of the stuff to New York from a U.S. Army base in Bogota. Laurie Anne Hiett surrendered to law enforcement officers in New York Thursday, after being charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine. Hiett was served with an arrest warrant in June after police intercepted an envelope mailed by her, which contained 2.7 pounds of cocaine. She reportedly told investigators that she had mailed six packages...