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...Croatia, Spain's smart money is appealing to upscale sunseekers like the Harveys. They walk to the gym every morning and, although they have a car, they can take a bus almost anywhere they want to go locally or catch a 20-minute train to Málaga. Their compound is a European microcosm, and they take Spanish classes - subsidized by the local government - with Scandinavians, Chinese, Russians, Poles, Austrians and Americans. The Harveys qualify for Spanish social security and are reassured by the presence of excellent hospitals. "Here, even the children and teenagers are polite," says Anne. "You wouldn...
...from a policeman earlier in the day. The head of the U.N. mission in Dili, Sukehiro Hasegawa, says U.N. advisers negotiated a halt to the shooting, and the Army commander promised the policemen would not be harmed if they surrendered. "We then took these unarmed officers out of the compound and we moved on to the street," Hasegawa told Australia's ABC Radio. "Most unfortunately, about 200 m from the police headquarters there were three or four soldiers, and one of them started firing at this group of unarmed police officers." Twelve policemen were killed; more than 20 others were...
Sitting sentry in the center of town, the Marines are a ripe target for insurgent assaults. On April 24, mortars begin crashing down on the compound, and the shuddering impacts force the grunts to take cover in their rooftop bunkers. From an alley in the northeast, an insurgent fires a rocket-propelled grenade that slams a wall along the narrow mouth of a sandbagged gun pit. Shards of hot metal penetrate the opening, hitting Corporal Jonathan Wilson. Blood pours down his neck. "Corpsman up, corpsman up," he cries--asking for a medic to head to the roof. He runs downstairs...
...student takeover of the U.S. embassy in Tehran was Sept. 11 in slow motion. Over 15 endless months, 52 American hostages were imprisoned, interrogated and humiliated by the radical Islamic students who seized the embassy compound. Back home, night after night, a lugubrious Walter Cronkite played the role of national town crier, counting off the days of captivity. Is it any surprise that all these years later the hostage taking is an episode that refuses to subside into mere history? The mullahs who exploited it to consolidate their power still rule. The hatreds it set loose still poison relations between...
...plan called for slipping members of the U.S.'s still untested new Delta Force, an élite Army rescue unit, through Iranian airspace to a makeshift desert landing strip in Iran. Then they would be trucked into Tehran, where they would somehow fight their way into the embassy compound and out of it again with the hostages in tow. Instead, a Delta Force chopper collided on the runway with a C-130 transport plane that had 44 Delta troops inside, and eight soldiers died in the fireball. When word of the failed mission reached the White House, notes Bowden, Hamilton...