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...hoped his "wives would rise from the dead" even though he has married but once and his ex-wife is still living. At the U.S. Air Force hospital in Wiesbaden, Germany, where he was first taken, and in Boston where he checked into a VA hospital at midweek, Tracy remained secluded...
Last Monday both Slovenia and Croatia vowed to declare independence by midweek. Yugoslav federal Prime Minister Ante Markovic warned, "We would find ourselves sitting on a bomb, which could destroy us all." His words proved prophetic. On Tuesday each republic proclaimed its sovereignty. The next day tank columns moved toward border crossings, and the 20,000 federal troops in Slovenia were placed on combat alert. In the early-morning hours of Thursday, 40 tanks and 20 armored personnel carriers rolled toward the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana to secure the republic's main airport, and traded artillery and antitank fire with...
...midweek afternoon in December 1988, a Harvard employee was raped in the Science Center. The rape sparked an outcry from women's groups and others on campus and prompted a number of demonstrations. At the time, administrators promised to tighten campus security...
...concentrated on blasting Iraqi nuclear facilities, chemical- and biological-weapons plants (including one factory in Baghdad that the Iraqis said manufactured baby formula but that the White House insisted was devoted to preparations for germ warfare), command-and-control centers and, in particular, the Iraqi air force. At a midweek briefing, Powell and Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney counted a bit more than 40 Iraqi planes shot down or destroyed on the ground. That compares with 22 allied planes, half of them American, lost in combat, nearly all to ground fire -- a startlingly low figure given the number of sorties...
Student Discount: Nov, 23-Jane. 1; $20weekend, $10 midweek with college...