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CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION INITIATED. Into the death of PAT TILLMAN, Arizona Cardinals defensive back who quit football to join the Army after 9/11 and was killed in Afghanistan in April 2004, after fellow Rangers mistook him for a Taliban fighter; by the Defense Department's inspector general; in Washington. The Army originally blamed enemy fire for Tillman's death. Tillman's family has criticized three previous Army investigations as incomplete...
...John Howard is in a good place. Fit, busy, master of his own game. Ever watchful, in person he's cheerful, attentive and sincere. Blessed with a strong constitution, Howard has not lost his hunger. The political street-fighter who has dispatched Labor's Paul Keating, Kim Beazley (twice), Mark Latham and may yet face off next year against Beazley 2.0, cites one homely ingredient for success - never miss a meal. "It doesn't matter who you are," he says, "you've got time for lunch." The looming anniversary appears to have put the P.M. in a relaxed mood...
...bullets and shrapnel from roadside bombs. As the convoy rolls down the back roads, Swenson and the guys in her humvee keep up an easy, comradely banter, joking about the Iraqi kids they see along their patrol: one boy moves like a hip-hop dancer, another like a ninja fighter. Swenson says, "What I'll remember isn't threatening Iraqis with my machine gun but seeing the children wave as we go by," and then adds that "sometimes they do throw rocks." And so she remains vigilant. The roads are peppered with hidden land mines and bomb craters. After steering...
...baby-faced summer intern from Georgia named Ralph Reed, who would later turn the Christian Coalition into a political powerhouse. Abramoff and Norquist dreamed up plenty of headline-getting stunts?like an adopt-a-contra appeal, with posters imploring, ONLY 53 CENTS A DAY WILL SUPPORT A NICARAGUAN FREEDOM FIGHTER. But they also annoyed the Reagan team, to the point that they were barred from a White House reception for the medical students rescued during the 1983 invasion of Grenada, according to Gang of Five, author Nina Easton's chronicle of the conservative movement of that time. Soon after, Norquist...
...DIED. URBANO LAZZARO, 81, Italian Communist resistance fighter credited with arresting Mussolini as the Fascist dictator tried to flee Italy in the final days of World War II; in Vercelli, Italy. As the Nazis retreated in April 1945, Lazzaro spotted Mussolini disguised as a German soldier in a convoy that he and fellow partisan fighters had stopped on a road near the village of Dongo. Mussolini was executed the next...