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...troops also were trigger-happy. "It was not uncommon for the 3-504 to use warning shots," an officer from another unit told investigators. "They are very quick shots." Once they fired on a vehicle, blowing out its back window, when it refused their order to halt. Inside were two Red Cross workers "who were fortunately not injured," the report said...
Sand Warriors Bondi Beach, Australia's most famous stretch of sand, is ready for its Olympics close-up. But some locals are still furious that the stadium built to host beach volleyball - the Games' flesh-baring party sport - has cut their beloved Bondi in half. After attempts to halt construction proved unsuccessful, activists have come up with a plan that calls for 1,000 people, armed with giant mirrors, to disrupt telecasts by flashing sunlight at television crews and into camera lenses. "We want the Olympic movement to reflect on its cultural imperialism," says Bondi councilor Dominic Wykanak. Unfortunately...
...Officers, who haven't had time to change into uniforms, arrive at the scene in their civilian clothes--no badge, no gun, no radio, nothing but pounding adrenaline. They race into the building anyway. An old small car screeches to a halt and three officers dive out. One cop after another runs across the quad and inside...
...when Clinton proposed to ban future road construction on 43 million acres of national forests, the locals took it as a declaration of war. For the past several years, rural groups have managed to halt virtually all environmental initiatives, including a master plan for the Ozarks devised by the Missouri Department of Conservation. The situation became so tense that workers were ordered not to wear uniforms; one was found gagged, with a Sierra Club video tape in her mouth. Says Ray Cunio, of Citizens for Private Property Rights: "No one is talking black helicopters or U.N. troops anymore. What...
...transsexual surgery at a "gender reassignment" clinic. Bloom's specialty is flipping a taboo on its head. "I didn't want to shock God," says a woman who has made love in a synagogue. "What would have shocked God? Two more naked people, trying to wrestle time to a halt?" Maybe three...