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Last Wednesday Biehl was preparing to leave Cape Town. She was to fly back to Stanford on Friday to begin doctoral studies. As she had done for months, Biehl offered some fellow students a lift back to their homes in the black townships. They piled into Biehl's mustard-colored Mazda, the one with the bumper sticker reading OUR LAND NEEDS PEACE. Around 5 p.m., as she drove into the township of Guguletu, a group of teenagers hurled stones at the car. Trapped behind another vehicle, Biehl was a sitting target for the brick that shattered her windshield...
Eager to quell speculation about the death of reported CIA agent Fred Woodruff, officials in the Republic of Georgia say he was killed when a soldier, refused a lift, fired once at the car Woodruff was riding in as it passed...
...superiors, he proved unusually outspoken for a mid-level Foreign Service officer. In April he and 11 colleagues wrote a letter to Christopher urging military intervention to help the Muslims; the missive somehow leaked to the New York Times. In May, when Christopher asked the allies to lift the arms embargo against the Bosnian government and bomb Serb targets, "we were excited that the U.S. was finally moving the right way. That went straight to hell in a matter of days," he says, when Christopher returned empty-handed. Last week's bomb-or-not-to-bomb contortions made...
...military intervention, and was worried that U.S. diplomatic credibility had been eroded by months of vacillation. As a result, he seemed determined not to be blamed if Sarajevo fell. He may also have felt disgust at the bad faith of the Serbs, who promised once again last week to lift the siege, then immediately started squabbling about exactly where their front line had been...
...total of roughly 170 investigations of various types in the former country and 110 in the latter. The high numbers seem to indicate that Vietnam -- recently, at least -- has been very cooperative in helping with POW/MIAs. This may make a difference as Washington decides in September whether to lift its two-decade-old trade embargo against Vietnam...