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...saviors were a brave company of men from the 6th Ranger Battalion. With the help of Filipino guerrilla bands, the Rangers slipped into the Japanese-held jungle and threaded their way around Japanese encampments to the prison, shot their way through the gates and, after a bloody firefight, hustled all the prisoners onto waiting buffalo carts for the journey back to safety...
...Reports from the region Monday suggested that despite sporadic outbreaks of violence in the West Bank and a fierce firefight in Gaza, the level of violence has been substantially reduced since Arafat's call. The radical Hamas movement, which has never supported the peace process, even issued a statement undertaking to suspend terror attacks inside Israel. But Hamas and even Arafat's own Fatah organization vowed to continue their uprising in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem...
...Serbia proper and in Macedonia. Those developments have put Western troops, who are charged with controlling Kosovo's borders, on a collision course with elements of their erstwhile allies in the KLA who are now seeking new targets. U.S. troops on Wednesday wounded two ethnic Albanian guerrillas in a firefight near the Macedonian village of Tanusevci, marking a dangerous new escalation of the risk to NATO forces in the region. With Yugoslavia now ruled by a democratic nationalist regime more acceptable to the West, many in NATO would plainly be more comfortable having Yugoslav troops facing off against the insurgents...
...ambush, exactly, when the target is forewarned. But Secretary of State Colin Powell may well find himself in a firefight on Capitol Hill Wednesday when he gives conservative Republicans their first opportunity to challenge his recent statements on Iraq. General Powell is slated to appear before the House Foreign Relations Committee to discuss his budget, offering some GOP hard-liners an opportunity to air their concerns about his proposal to relax most sanctions on Iraq while tightening the arms embargo. Powell touted the policy during his tour of Middle Eastern capitals two weeks ago, prompting some alarm among conservatives over...
...Monday's fierce gun battles in Bethlehem and Ramallah were a reminder of just how elusive such a deal may be. Israeli helicopter gunships fired on a Palestinian neighborhood in Bethlehem after Israeli troops guarding the Jewish shrine of Rachel's Tomb were fired on, while the Ramallah firefight capped a weekend of clashes that followed the mistaken killing by Israeli snipers of a Palestinian construction worker...