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...fact that both Saddam and his weapons were still missing made for some uncomfortable conversations in Washington--particularly when Saddam popped up again on TV. Virtually an entire air wing of Soviet-made MiG-25 fighters was found hidden in the desert, and more gold-plated AK-47s turned up in Saddam's palaces. But there was no sign yet of the buried nerve gas or a proven biowarfare lab. Polls in America are reflecting relief that the worst is over, more than concern at what remains to be done. But failure to achieve all the ends for which...
...sacked following allegations that a state-run company was linked to arms sales to Iraq, in violation of U.N. sanctions. The U.S. State Department accused Jugoimport SDPR, an arms-procurement agency, of helping Orao, a Bosnian Serb firm, to sell Iraq military equipment, including spare parts for Soviet-era MiG-21 fighter planes. American and Bosnian officials said nato peacekeepers found proof of the sales at Orao's factory in eastern Bosnia. Jugoimport's office in Baghdad was ordered to shut. SPAIN Separate Ways The favorite to be the new president of Catalonia's ruling party called for greater independence...
...time on his fourteenth move ("Vlad thinking here is not a good omen for those rooting for living creatures," said Russian grand master Peter Svidler) and an extraordinary 42 minutes on the seventeenth move. With his clock still running, Kramnik suddenly "popped up from the chessboard," said match commentator Mig Greengard, and ran with his bodyguard Aziz to the bathroom in his boudoir. (Evidently the restroom is a fine place for chess inspiration; one sequence of opening moves is known in the chess literature as the Toilet Variation because that is where its creator came up with it.) When...
...Bagram--a modest airstrip expanded by the Soviets in the 1980s and currently used as the main in-country base for coalition forces--an air of permanence is taking hold. Soviet-era military debris--from MiG fighters to helmets--is being bulldozed into piles. The runway apron has been extended. Offices and a gym are under construction. The Post Exchange supply shop has begun to accept credit cards. There are even efforts to control the ever-present dust, a fine gray chalk that infiltrates everything--seams, food, mouths--and turns to slime at the slightest hint of rain. And while...
...bungalow on the airport grounds, and he collected birds: Amazonian parrots as bright as tropical fruit and doves with a smear of crimson on their breasts that looked as if they'd been shot through the heart. They fluttered around crazily every time one of the Pakistani MiG fighters screeched overhead...