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...Zimbabwean journalist, who would not talk about his situation over the phone for fear that an interviewer was actually a spy from his government, spoke deliberately yesterday about numerous attacks on the newspaper he founded and the government harassment that drove him to flee to South Africa...
...statues point east, but the next war would come to Basra from the south, the scene of Iraq's humiliation in 1991, when U.S.-led forces drove the Iraqi military from Kuwait. A sand barrier and trench constructed by Kuwait after the Gulf War to prevent infiltrators from crossing over now separates Iraq from Kuwait, and beyond it are the massing ranks of the invasion force. As he peers into the distance in the midday haze, vegetable farmer Shadat Dafeh Hamed mumbles, "I can't see them, but I know they are there." Hamed, 70, lives closer to the enemy...
...presidency. Astronauts Virgil (Gus) Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chafee were suffocated in their capsule by an internal fire. Johnson was devastated. He was no stranger to failure, yet he apparently never believed death could be associated with such a noble effort. But he did not pause long. He drove ahead and drove everybody with him. Success in space began to outweigh the delays and frustrations. Mired in the Vietnam mess, Johnson sought solace in the space exploits. At one point he muttered, "Thank God I've still got my astronauts...
...trying to break it up, says Debbie, was shoved to the ground by the locals, who also managed to knock down an unrelated middle-aged woman in their way. When it broke up, the group of Harvard students headed to a club, and the local girls “drove by in a car and screamed at us. We ignored them and went inside...
...inquiry. "I don't see how you can have a thorough investigation without talking to the people who were in charge throughout the time period prior to 9/11," he told TIME. McCain said the new investigation should go at least as far back as 1989, when U.S.-backed mujahedin drove the Soviet Union out of Afghanistan--and the U.S. pulled back from involvement in the war-scarred region. --By Timothy J. Burger