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Eyes peering through slits in black masks, the commandos creep up the floors of the Baghdad apartment building, ready to pounce. Their target is Omar Tamimi, an insurgent believed to have carried out the January assassination of the governor of Baghdad province. In the past, the responsibility for such high-profile operations has been shouldered by teams of elite U.S. troops. But on this night, the American commandos are playing a support role to members of the new Iraqi army's Counter Terrorism Task Force, a unit the U.S. is training to take on more counterinsurgent dirty work. The early...
...criminal milestone to the U. S. historian of 1982, no one but foreign editors and a few vigilant U. S. patriots were saying or doing much about it. Among the vigilant patriots were some American Legionaries in California who stirred Connecticut's Hiram Bingham to suggest on the floor of the Senate last week that the kidnapping of the country's most celebrated baby was a colossal plot to get the country's most celebrated criminal, Alphonse Capone, out of jail in Chicago...
...child's disappearance. Nurse, wife and husband rushed to the nursery. What they saw may be reconstructed as follows: two shuttered windows; a third, facing east, was not shuttered because one shutter was warped and would not close; mud, apparently from shoes, lay on the floor and on the shutterless windowsill below which, contrary to previous report, there was no piece of furniture; an empty crib standing in its position toward the centre of the room. The parents and nurse may have discovered the original ransom note, but it was not opened until the chief and deputy chief of police...
Ongoing. Ceramics presented by the Ceramics Program of the Office of the Arts. Main floor, Hilles Library, 59 Shepard St. Free...
...store is still a bit rough around the edges. A circular saw lies on the floor in front of the sound system in the back, and speakers are stacked haphazardly to the left in front of a torn leather couch. A bench seat from an old employee’s Dodge Caravan sits against the center display, enticing the tired shopper. The entire ceiling is plastered not with insulation, but old records...