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Person of the Week UNDER THE LIGHTS With the first phase of the war on terror going well, President George W. Bush is now insisting that Saddam Hussein allow U.N. weapons inspectors back into Iraq. If Saddam remains defiant, the fragile U.S.-led coalition could either splinter or be headed to Baghdad...
...anti-Taliban hands, the U.S. bombers have a fast-dwindling set of targets. The only Taliban lines left to pound last weekend were in Kunduz, the last government garrison in the north, and in Kandahar. Last week the Taliban was on the verge of quitting both cities, but defiant Taliban cadres made their stands. In the north, the estimated 6,000 Taliban troops who retreated to Kunduz from the decimated fronts at Mazar-i-Sharif and Taloqan had their supply lines and escape routes cut off. They had two options: surrender to the Uzbek and Tajik rebels or face death...
...under the twin onslaught of U.S. bombing and Northern Alliance advances. But there were ominous signs that warlords were reclaiming their traditional fiefdoms, threatening the country with fragmentation. Air strikes against al-Qaeda targets continued past the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan as Taliban leaders remained defiant, and U.S. ground troops clashed for the first time with Taliban soldiers in the south. As British forces secured Bagram airbase for military deployments and humanitarian aid, U.N. and Western diplomats pressed for the formation of a provisional council in Kabul as a prelude to a representative transitional government. BRITAIN...
...anti-Taliban hands, the U.S. bombers have a fast-dwindling set of targets. The only Taliban lines left to pound last weekend were in Kunduz, the last government garrison in the north, and in Kandahar. Last week the Taliban was on the verge of quitting both cities, but defiant Taliban cadres made their stands. In the north, the estimated 6,000 Taliban troops who retreated to Kunduz from the decimated fronts at Mazar-i-Sharif and Taloqan had their supply lines and escape routes cut off. They had two options: surrender to the Uzbek and Tajik rebels or face death...
...traveling now as a patriotic duty, a way to help the country return to normal. That conviction tipped the scales for my siblings and parents, who were wavering about a family trip to Hawaii in mid-October. The flights my sister and I took from New York, packed with defiant travelers, lacked a single empty seat. Arrivals from the 49 states to Hawaii are off 19%, not a bad drop these days. But the planes the rest of the family took from Japan were so sparsely occupied that the flight attendants showered passengers with extra bags of nuts. Japan Airlines...