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...last week that Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban's one-eyed Commander of the Faithful, might be hiding in the province's mountains with 800 men. The Taliban has deepened its alliance with warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and his fundamentalist, anti-Western Hizb-i-Islami Party, which remains potent in eastern Afghanistan. Hekmatyar used to have close ties to Iran, and Pakistani sympathizers of the Taliban say Tehran may be secretly bankrolling the rebels to tie down U.S. troops in Afghanistan...
...Number of rubber bath toys thought to be streaming toward the eastern seaboard of the U.S. They fell off a container ship in the Pacific...
...most prominent black administrators at the College, Epps attempted to facilitate race relations on campus. While a teaching fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies in 1964, he examined in a piece published in The Crimson how the Civil Rights Movement had reached an impasse. As an associate dean, he published in The Crimson another piece on the meaning of Malcolm X’s death...
Epps was raised in Louisiana and graduated from Talladega College in Alabama before matriculating at the Divinity School. He became a teaching fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies in 1961 and was appointed assistant dean of the College...
...Government spokesman Zoltán Gál reaffirmed the country's willingness to host a U.S. training program for Iraqi police after Prime Minister Péter Medgyessy was reported to be "cool" to the idea. The U.S. is seeking to train an estimated 28,000 Iraqis in Eastern Europe over the next 18 months. Gál told TIME that Medgyessy had merely questioned Hungary's ability to host the trainees all at once. "There is not any backtracking," Gál said. Hungary is one of several countries under consideration to host the program...