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...have put this bomb-grade nuclear material forever out of the reach of potential black marketeers, terrorists or new nuclear regimes," Perry said just after the last convoy rolled in to Oak Ridge. "This is defense by other means and in a big way." While U.S. officials said the challenge of the mission was unique and unlikely to be repeated, they conceded that if faced with a similar situation, they would probably do the same thing again. For team member Richard Taylor, a 20-year Oak Ridge employee, the sense of accomplishment was exhilarating. "How many times...
This particular Sunday, however, Constant is a squeaky-clean presidential candidate out looking for votes in some distant election, dispensing pork- barrel promises, anti-U.S. rhetoric and a little voodoo. His two-car convoy heads for the hamlet of Montrouis, where he stops for cola drinks and conch while shaking the hands of awed peasants. In the town of St. Marc he promises an electrification project, then tucks into a helping of fried goat. Later he rants to farmers about Haiti's exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and promises that FRAPH will poison the water supply...
First stop for the L.D.P. convoy was the Shchelkovo District Administrative Office, located on a central square dominated by a huge statue of Lenin. With a pack of a dozen journalists at his heels, he paraded into the office of Nikolai Pashin, the head of the local administration. Wiping his face with his hands, tweaking his nose and interrupting his host several times to give orders to his aides, he listened as Pashin trotted out a list of ills afflicting the community. No problem was so large that Zhirinovsky wasn't ready with an instant solution. The district's atrocious...
...border from Egypt into the Gaza Strip, dropped to his knees and kissed the sandy soil. As the welcoming crowd cheered and waved black-red-green-and-white flags, he was surrounded by officials and security men from the Palestine Liberation Organization. He and his aides piled into a convoy of cars and trucks carrying armed guards and sped along the main north-south route into Gaza City. Thousands of supporters roared a welcome outside the building where the Israeli army of occupation had its local headquarters until last...
Commissioned as an ensign in May 1943, Rubinwas assigned to a Landing Craft Tank (LCT), whichcarried six Sherman medium tanks in a convoy boundfor Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands...