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...AUSTRALIA A Climb-Down on Asylum Claims In an apparent concession to about 2,000 detained Afghan refugees, the Australian government said it would resume processing their claims for asylum. The move came after three Afghans at the Woomera detention center, in the South Australian desert, attempted suicide. About 200 migrants have been on a hunger strike at the facility, where more than 40 had their lips sewn shut. Reviews of the Afghans' claims were frozen in November, pending evaluation of the post-Taliban situation in their homeland...
...suit against them. And in his final month as President, Clinton provided a raft of additional targets, including measures announced just last week to protect more than 1 million acres of federal land, such as the Upper Missouri River Breaks in Montana and a portion of Arizona's Sonoran Desert. Property-rights advocates and Western Republican Governors howl that these vast protected spaces--what one Bush adviser calls "land grabs"--hurt local logging companies and property owners...
...pressing concerns about the military value of the V-22. While the Marines insist the Osprey is ready for production, it has not been approved for combat maneuvers and lacks its required gun. The winds created by its dual 38-ft. rotors are so strong that landing in a desert kicks up sand "brownouts" that can blind pilots, and rescuing someone from the sea is made extremely difficult. Marines climbing down ropes from Ospreys in combat simulations aboard ships or oil platforms have to hit the deck and stay there until the aircraft departs or risk being blown overboard. Communications...
...suit against them. And in his final month as president, Clinton provided a raft of additional targets, including measures announced just last week to protect more than 1 million acres of federal land, such as the Upper Missouri River Breaks in Montana and a portion of Arizona's Sonoran Desert. Property-rights advocates and western Republican governors howl that these vast protected spaces - what one Bush adviser calls "land grabs" - hurt local logging companies and property owners...
...Iraqi assault was expected on the Western flank of allied lines. He was saying they're coming straight at you. So the general let us go out with his special forces, who were setting ambushes along the wadi where the attack was expected. We were lying there in the desert all night with these special forces guys when suddenly we hear these B-52's flying high overhead. They fly over, and then we feel the ground shaking. And the smell of burnt flesh wafts down the wadi. And that's it, the assault on Khafji is repulsed, the entire...