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...Camp Lejeune military jury trying a Marine pilot on charges that he recklessly flew his jet into the cables holding an Italian ski gondola fired a shot on Thursday that is bound to be heard around the world. The jury acquitted Capt. Richard Ashby on all charges for the killing of the 20 people in the gondola -- two Poles, seven Germans, five Belgians, three Italians, two Austrians and one Dutch. Conviction could have put Ashby behind bars for life. The initial reaction of the families of the victims in the courtroom was shock -- a sensation that will also soon rock...
This was nobody's idea of a romantic Valentine's Day. While millions of couples prepared for a quiet night out, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and her top aides bundled onto an Air Force jet bound for France, where peace talks between Yugoslav Serbs and Albanians were stalemated. From the moment she landed, Albright began trying to punch through the impasse. She bluntly threatened the Serbs with warnings about NATO air strikes, charmed the Albanians with the promise of U.S. support and kept her fellow foreign ministers in line by reminding them of their commitment to hit the Serbs...
...enemies call him a terrorist and a "baby killer." But last week, Abdullah Ocalan, proud leader of the violent Kurdistan Workers' Party (P.K.K.), was just the cowed captive of the country he had fought for more than 14 years. As he sat strapped into the seat of a jet en route to Turkey, his face dripped with sweat and his eyes blinked nervously while he told his captors how much he "loved" Turkey and how eager he was to "render services" to them. Then he requested medicine for his heartburn...
...headed to Nairobi. "The understanding was that Kenya was just a temporary solution of two or three days," says Failos Kranidiotis, the guerrilla's Greek lawyer. After that, Ocalan was expected to move permanently to another African state. According to Kenyan officials, his unmarked jet landed in Nairobi at 11:33 p.m. Kenyan authorities say Greek Ambassador George Costoulas met the plane and whisked its passengers past immigration controls...
...them forced Ocalan into a jeep but did not allow us to travel with him. The last time I saw him was when his jeep turned into a building saying POLICE STATION." By 11:07 p.m. a blindfolded, handcuffed and drugged Ocalan was being escorted into a private jet bound for Turkey...