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...they arrived in the vicinity of Grenoble in southeastern France, a furtive air crept in to the seasonal image. Near the village of St. Pierre-de-Cherennes, the party halted in the thick of an Alpine forest and walked about half a mile to a clearing. There, 14 members were dosed with sedatives and lay down in a sunburst pattern, most of them with plastic bags over their head. The remaining two then shot the others dead, set the bodies ablaze and killed themselves with pistol shots under the chin. One of the executioners was a policeman, Jean-Pierre Lardanchet...
...snow. Worse, the roads, winding along the bottoms of valleys, are highly vulnerable to snipers on the surrounding mountains. Advance troops will have to scour the hills to make sure their comrades can move along the roads in safety. Finally, in and around Tuzla, they will occupy a 500-mile-long border area designed to separate Serb from Muslim and Croat forces, setting up checkpoints and patrols to make sure nobody crosses without legitimate business...
...peace treaty, all unauthorized foreign forces, including the mujahedin, are to get out of Bosnia within 30 days. Undoubtedly some will. But Pentagon officials are worried that others will go underground. U.S. officials point out that the 20,000 American troops will be spread out along 500 miles of the separation zone, or 40 to a mile, leaving few big concentrations to serve as targets for a car bomb. Says a senior officer: "We've learned a lot since Beirut," where 241 servicemen died in a suicide bombing of a Marine barracks in 1983. Even so, such an attack...
This week, after a six-year, 2.3 billion-mile odyssey, a 2 1/2-ton, instrument-crammed spacecraft named after the Italian astronomer will hurtle past two of those moons, Europa and Io, then swing into orbit around Jupiter. There, if all goes well, it will conduct the most thorough study ever of the solar system's largest planet and its swarm of moons (Jupiter is known to have at least...
...enforcement degree, makes $19,100. (Caseworker salaries in big cities average about $37,000.) A single mother, she is on call 24 hours a day and gets no reimbursement for the $5-an-hour baby-sitting fees she incurs responding to an emergency. She logs more than 1,000 miles on her car each month, and the 22¢ a mile she is compensated barely covers the costs of gas, let alone the wear and tear on her 1983 Toyota Corolla. Yet she is indefatigable. "Every night when I'm driving home, I think, 'Are all my kids safe? Will they...