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...worth the wait. On Oct. 15, after decades of fitful starts and spectacular failures for China's space program, Lieut. Colonel Yang Liwei, a diminutive ex-fighter pilot, roared into the heavens to become China's first man in space. During his 21-hour journey in the heavens, the 38-year-old Yang maneuvered weightlessly in the tight compartment of the Shenzhou V capsule, taking photographs, naps, and at one point producing a tiny Chinese flag?an iconic image that would soon be broadcast to 1.3 billion fellow citizens back home. The mission-control room outside Beijing burst into cheers...
...warned all the Palestinian groups that Israel would try to strike their offices in Beirut. Some Israeli ministers worry the air strike against Syria made Israel look aggressive and risks opening a conflict across the northern border. In a concrete-lined trench at the Narkis post above Metula, Lieut. Colonel Lior screws up his eyes against the hot, dry wind that sweeps down from the Syrian desert and watches for the next move in that battle. A deputy brigade commander on the border, Lior points out the nearby farmhouses from which Hizballah operatives monitor Israeli patrols. His soldiers have been...
Clark had a charmed career in the military, but, associates say, it began stalling out after he won his second star with his promotion to major general in September 1992. Bill Clinton gave him a third star in 1994. Two years later, then Lieut. General Marc Cisneros recalls hearing that Clark was seeking to win the four-star billet as head of the U.S. Southern Command--after the service had nominated Cisneros for the post. Cisneros would have seemed the ideal candidate: a Spanish speaker who had taken Manuel Noriega into custody in 1990 when the Panamanian leader surrendered...
...militants active inside Iraq is in "the low hundreds," most of them drawn from Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Syria, Pakistan and Afghanistan. U.S. military officials in Iraq acknow0ledge that they have failed to bottle up the southern and western borders with Saudi Arabia and Syria, which infiltrators can easily cross. Lieut. General Ricardo Sanchez, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, told reporters last week that because of combat demands on U.S. forces, the borders are being guarded by just a 14,000-person Iraqi security force...
...Qaeda; or foreign jihadists who have flocked to Iraq; or a noxious combination of all the above. Treat every such opinion as if it carried a health warning. The plain truth is that nobody knows who is responsible for atrocities like the Baghdad bomb. Lieut. General Ricardo Sanchez, the U.S.'s top soldier in Iraq, has often said the thing he lacks most is not more men but better intelligence. Asked how many foreign jihadists might have entered Iraq, a senior White House official was honest enough to admit, "I don't think we really have a good sense...