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...instructed them to stay put. The limited ordnance U.S. warplanes have dropped on or around Taliban lines outside Kabul--by week's end they had unloaded only half a dozen bombs--left alliance troops fuming. "It's a joke," said General Said Khel, one of the men who would marshal an advance on Kabul if the attack takes place...
...CHANG HSUEH-LIANG only once in Taipei, at the home of Chiang Kai-Shek's chief of staff. At that hour-long meeting, Chang remained silent?and he kept silent until the day he died. The "Young Marshal" remains a tragic and elusive figure in modern Chinese history. Even after he was released from house arrest in Taiwan, Chang declined to write his memoirs. He also disappointed his former comrades when he refused to visit northeast China, where they had established a museum in his honor and maintained his former home. Instead, he spent his time studying the Bible. Chang...
...Cars With Boys is well-founded. The story is real and gritty—what could, given the right turns of phrase—be the stuff of a great autobiographical novel, but what is perhaps too pedestrian for the film’s slate. Unless director Penny Marshal pulls out all cinematographic stops and carries the film on aesthetic sails alone, the prognosis for Riding in Cars looks grim. At the very least, their pusillanimous, even deceitful, refusal to submit to critical treatment will be a self-fulfilling prophesy of sorts. It is a telegraph to intelligent film consumers...
...think that pilots—many of whom have no experience with close range weaponry—will be effective deterrents to terrorists after a few weeks at FBI training camp. Quite frankly, it scares me to think that on my next flight home to Los Angeles, an air marshal may be sitting next to me with his finger on a trigger. With that image in mind, it is downright terrifying to think of an inexperienced, armed pilot. We hire pilots to fly planes, not to guard them...
Surely the expense of placing at least one armed air marshal on each plane, reinforcing cockpit doors and instituting thorough and efficient screenings of passengers before they board is a small enough price to pay for air-travel safety. Americans should not have to fear and avoid flying! N. HARRY GARTZMAN Philadelphia...