Word: deserter
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...detectives headed to the house to make arrests, something frighteningly unusual happened. Instead of scattering like the desert animals that migrant smugglers are named for--coyotes--henchmen working for Avianeda and Andrade fired at the cops with automatic weapons. "We've never faced that kind of resistance from coyotes," says the Minatitlan detective commander, Simitrio Rodriguez. "They're usually not even armed." None of the police were hurt. When the gunfight was over, Avianeda, 39, and four others were under arrest. Andrade, 28, had fled, and is still at large...
...northwestern city of Mosul, seeking sanctuary with Bedouin loyalists he hoped would defend him to the death. Locals have approached U.S. troops with so many unsubstantiated reports of Saddam's presence in the area that commanders refer to them as Elvis sightings. "He's out there in the desert," a powerful sheik in the town of Sinjar, 60 miles west of Mosul, told Lieut. Colonel Henry Arnold. "He's with the Bedouins...
...says State Department spokesman Philip Reeker. "There are no shortcuts and no lowering of the bar." Gaddafi is desperate to end U.N. and U.S. sanctions that have cost the Libyan economy $30 billion. Libyan officials quickly arranged the interview with Time, conducted in a quilted tent pitched in the desert outside Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte, 500 km east of Tripoli, to emphasize the country's desire to settle the Lockerbie matter once and for all. Speaking in a soft monotone, without emotion except for an occasional smirk, Gaddafi described a new world order in which the U.S. and Libya...
...ropes because he misled a country steadfast against a premature and unnecessary invasion, Bush is only on the ropes—and only kind of—because his public relations machine is dumbstruck for the first time. Bush wagered the White House on finding a deadly desert stockpile and is now trying to redefine deadly. Meanwhile, democrats have left themselves vulnerable because, rather than facing off with Bush on the merits of invasion, they insist on holding him to that bet—fine as long as nothing turns...
...Died. Bob Hope, 100, legendary comedian known for one-liners and gigs before countless American GIs in combat zones from Italy to the Middle East; in Toluca Lake, California. Performing for troops in 1990 during Operation Desert Shield, Hope compared his career to the capabilities of the Stealth bomber. "It flies in undetected, bombs, then flies away. Hell, I've been doing that all my life...