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...appears unshaken by Rome's subsequent decision to send a sizable force to Lebanon. Birgit Homburger, deputy head of Germany's Free Democratic Party, joins the European chorus that ISAF's mandate "must be extended. We cannot simply stop halfway through." Nevertheless, a recent poll showed that 56% of Germans want to "withdraw as quickly as possible from the country," with 38% disagreeing. The German parliament is due to vote in September. Can the accumulation of worrying signs be reversed? During a visit to Afghanistan in July, Homburger was surprised by the optimism expressed by both Afghans and foreign workers...
Grand Illusion Jean Renoir Perhaps the most beloved film on any list of all-time greats, this World War I saga prefigures many a Great Escape prison-camp movie--it pits a German commandant (Erich von Stroheim) against two captured French officers (Pierre Fresnay and Jean Gabin) in a gradually warming debate on the codes of honor and survival. But Renoir the humanist is no sentimentalist, as the film's French title makes clear: La Grande Illusion translates as The Big Illusion. This was the first Criterion DVD release, and the supplements show that the company was on its game...
...includes no new information for those who have been paying attention. The letter did note that panel aides had consulted with experts in the U.S. and abroad, which Ware said included a trip to consult with the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency. Aides also traveled to consult with German and U.K. intelligence officials who cover Iran, Ware said...
What exactly happened on Northwestern Airlines flight 042 out of Amsterdam this morning still isn't clear, but to give themselves ample time to figure it out, Dutch authorities have formally placed a dozen passengers under arrest. The Bombay-bound DC-10 had just crossed into German airspace when the pilot radioed back to Schiphol Airport that some passengers were acting suspiciously and that he was turning around. Two Dutch Air Force F-16s scrambled from an air base in Leeuwarden to escort the plane back to Amsterdam. All the passengers were taken off the flight, but 12 of them...
...meeting and found themselves pinned down by artillery fire. On Tuesday morning, according to Reuters, automatic weapons fire ripped through the city and at least two government tanks headed towards the main area of fighting. The United Nations says it is flying in 400 extra Dutch and German peacekeepers on standby in nearby Gabon. They will join the 17,000 U.N. peacekeeping troops dotted around the vast central African nation. Diplomats from the U.N., South Africa and elsewhere are now scrambling to end the fighting before it spreads...