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...Russians may also be helping Iraq outside the diplomatic arena. Retired Colonel Victor Baranets, who served as press secretary to former Russian Defense Minister Igor Rodionov, believes Russia has "secretly supplied Iraq with several billion dollars worth of weapons and spare parts" since sanctions have been in place. He also thinks Moscow bought Baghdad's agreement to allow the U.N. inspectors to return to work two weeks ago with pledges of more supplies and full-scale military cooperation after sanctions are lifted...
Start in a bit from the entrance. There is a stone marking the plot of a Colonel Buchwald. It is large but not enormous, and Buchwald probably served his country well. The site would blend unnoticed if his neighbor to the left, lying under a small government-issue marker, wasn't Norman Cota, the general who on D-day rallied the scattered American invasion force on Omaha Beach and pushed it past the German defenses; Robert Mitchum played him in The Longest Day. A hundred yards away, under a similarly modest headstone, rests Alonzo H. Cushing, who commanded the federal...
...interested in this place," says Lieut. Colonel Conrad Crane, a member of West Point's history department, "when I asked the cadets in my class why they were here. Some said free education or to get a job on Wall Street. I wanted to show them what being a West Pointer is all about." He shows them a graveyard full of the young, dating from the first man buried here...
...things to sort out," he explains. Wife Larissa, meanwhile, has become a minor celebrity. Russian Mir watchers praise her dignity and "big-screen beauty." "She's kept strong," says a fellow cosmonaut's wife, "and kept the kids out of the public eye." Tsibliyev, a colonel, could still lose his stripes. But son Vasili Jr., 19, and daughter Victoria, 14, are not worried. "Papa's back," says Victoria. "That's all that matters...
ATTACK OF THE KILLER CHICKEN! Thorough cooking can save us from bacteria-ridden fowl. Arnold will play Colonel Sanders in the flick...