Word: dayton
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...five children born to devout Chinese Lutherans, Jimmy, as he was known at Jonathan Dayton High School in Springfield, N.J., was a champion wrestler, an ace student and "a low-maintenance guy," according to his coach. A high school teammate recalls his wiry, 100-lb. friend as "well-mannered, disciplined and studious." Yee earned a ticket to West Point, from which he graduated in 1990. Later, after he rebelled against his Lutheran upbringing, converted to Islam and became a Muslim chaplain, he told anyone who would listen that his was a religion of peace. He lived quietly with his wife...
...serving as the director of policy and planning for the Joint Chiefs, a position in which his deft political touch and a capacity for poor judgment were on display. He played a key role in stopping an early round of bloodshed in the Balkans, helping to draft the Dayton accords that halted the killing in Bosnia. But he stumbled when he met and swapped military hats with Ratko Mladic, a Bosnian Serb general the U.S. had branded a war criminal for the indiscriminate killing of Bosnian Muslims. The meeting infuriated the State Department. Clark later apologized, saying his gesture...
...phone conversations purportedly made between Bensayah Belkacem, the apparent leader of the group, and top al-Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah in Afghanistan shortly after Sept. 11. The Bosnian Supreme Court ultimately freed the men for lack of evidence, and the Chamber of Human Rights, a panel established under the Dayton peace accords, not only endorsed the verdict but issued an order barring the government from exiling the prisoners. But the men were still handed over to U.S. troops. After many months, postcards began to arrive from Guantánamo. Mustafa Idr's wife Sabiha Delic, a Bosnian, says U.S. embassy...
...were a direct threat to us. Now we are sending an investigation team of 1,400 people over there to hunt for them. Either we were scammed or our intelligence gathering is seriously flawed. Whichever it is, the U.S. ends up with egg on its face. CAROLYN SIEBER Dayton, Ohio...
Outside Hollywood, wheel-related crimes include rim jacking and, on occasion, even homicide. This spring a college student was fatally shot in Sacramento when he tried to steal one of Dayton's gold-plated low-rider wheels from a machine shop. A police officer in Florida's Broward County was killed in April when he interrupted two men pinching designer rims off a new Cadillac Escalade. Five of these luxury SUVs were stolen in March from a dealer's lot in Laguna Niguel, Calif.; four were found the next day missing only their wheels and tires. The thieves had cherry...