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PORT SECURITY Few scenarios fray the nerves of counterterrorism planners more than the prospect of someone sneaking a nuclear warhead such as a dirty bomb aboard a cargo container headed for a U.S. port. For a nation that took in more than 7 million pieces of container freight last year, the security challenges are awesome. To ensure that those containers aren't used to smuggle in nuclear terrorism, U.S. customs agents often track ships before they leave foreign ports, using computers to keep tabs on their cargo. Some containers have electronic lids that will indicate if they have been tampered...
Though he tended to stay out of the political fray on campus, Ford spoke out against the Vietnam war in a Commencement speech in 1967, and was one of several top American educators to pay a visit to President Johnson that year to express concern for the repercussions of the war on foreign policy, the nation and higher education...
...lower and midlevel people who, frankly, just see no other out." U.S. officials are worried that if Saddam is captured or killed, Fedayeen fighters may switch their allegiance to tribal leaders with anti-American grudges or link up with foreign militants who have crossed into Iraq to join the fray...
...charge, though he will likely take flak for issuing a second paper last February that mixed up new intelligence information with an old graduate thesis on Saddam's power structure that one of his aides plagiarized from the Internet. And so Campbell is likely to emerge from the fray, still Europe's most powerful political image maker. But even his friends are wondering: Is he winning this battle but losing the war? He's the one in charge of getting voters to think well of the government - and increasingly, they do not. For the first time since Labour came...
...than whether or not, to run. Ralph Nader and former Democratic Rep. Cynthia McKinney are the best-known of those considering a bid for the party's nomination, but at least four others - three of whom appeared at a candidate forum during the meeting - are ready to enter the fray...