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...Czech chemical-weapons experts, deployed along the Saudi-Iraqi border, detected sarin and mustard gas on three occasions in the war's opening days. Chemical-weapons alarms sounded in U.S., British and French units at the same time. Tuite's correlation of the detections and of satellite weather photographs taken at the time suggests that the tons of nerve agent atomized in the allied strikes rose in a huge thermal plume that became stuck behind a stationary weather front. He argues that this invisible cloud drifted south over the entire theater, gently sprinkling the soldiers with a poisonous rain...
...fans and stunned her older foes with a game that defied both her years and the usual baseline monotony. Hingis made the semifinals of the U.S. Open, won two tournaments and finished the year with the No. 4 ranking on the women's tour. She speaks German, English and Czech, and displays a talent for theater, striking just the right pose when a shot or call does not go her way. "I have just seen the future of women's tennis," gushed noted tennis commentator Bud Collins after her victory in a U.S. Open quarter-final, "and it is thrilling...
...knitting, waiting for guys to call, unless the guy is the President and the date is with History. And so she was pleased last Tuesday when the phone rang and it was Clinton on the line. They talked for a while. He asked about the health of her friend Czech President Vaclav Havel, who has lung cancer. Clinton mused about the messy U.S. effort to unseat Boutros Boutros-Ghali. Then there came a pregnant pause. And then he thanked her and hung...
Albright got her first lessons in diplomacy as "the little blond girl in the national costume," the daughter of a Czech diplomat who greeted dignitaries with flowers. She got her first lesson in tyranny when the Nazis overran her country in 1938 and her family fled to London. When the family returned, her father and role model, Josef Korbel, might have become Foreign Minister had the communists not taken over in 1948. Instead, Korbel and his family sought asylum in the U.S., where he taught international relations at the University of Denver...
AILING. VACLAV HAVEL, 60, chain-smoking playwright-President of the Czech Republic; with pneumonia; following surgery to remove a malignant tumor and half of his right lung; in Prague. Doctors said Havel's prognosis was good, but late in the week, they performed a tracheotomy to relieve breathing problems. Havel's wife Olga, recipient of a famous series of his letters under the communists, died of cancer in January...