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Shortly after nightfall, a pair of Black Hawk helicopters extricated Maroyka and the other seriously wounded men. As midnight approached, three CH-47s returned to the valley's southern tip. Perez wearily climbed up the ramp, where he ran into Grippe. "Are you sure we've got everybody?" Grippe yelled at him over the roar of the turbines. For the first time that day, Perez had his doubts. He scampered into the darkness and surveyed the area with his night-vision goggles one more time. Finding no Americans, he ran back to the chopper just before it lifted off. Maroyka...
...captain of an aircraft carrier is like a father of 5,500 children?and when the kids mess up, Dad takes the fall. That appears to be what happened to U.S. Navy Captain Thomas Hejl, until last week the commander of the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Kitty Hawk. After a string of alleged criminal acts by crew members of the Yokosuka-based ship, the Navy removed Hejl from his post 'due to a loss of confidence in his ability to lead his crew and carry out essential missions and taskings,' according to a statement by U.S. Seventh Fleet command. Six members...
...tough talk now demands action, argues arch-hawk Richard Perle, chairman of the Defense Policy Board, a Pentagon think tank. He responded to Scowcroft's critique by warning, "The failure to take on Saddam after what the president [has] said would produce such a collapse of confidence in the president that it would set back the war on terrorism...
...weeks after the Administration started holding deputies' meetings, Clarke presented a new plan to them. In addition to Hadley, who chaired the hour-long meeting, the gathering included Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis Libby; Richard Armitage, the barrel-chested Deputy Secretary of State; Paul Wolfowitz, the scholarly hawk from the Pentagon; and John McLaughlin from the CIA. Armitage was enthusiastic about Clarke's plan, according to a senior official. But the CIA was gun-shy. Tenet was a Clinton holdover and thus vulnerable if anything went wrong. His agency was unwilling to take risks; it wanted "top cover" from...
Advertising agencies are responding accordingly. Fearing that their products will lose eyeballs, advertisers are looking for ever-more deceptive ways to hawk their wares. For example, if you’ve been to the movies this summer, you undoubtedly noticed the string of commercials preceding the previews. Because movie-goers are the closest advertisers can get to a captive audience these days, expect this practice to become standard. To reach fickle (and TiVO-equipped) television viewers, blatant product placements are another avenue of attack. Coca-Cola’s infiltration of this summer?...