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...such an atrocity possible? Experts cite an absence of discipline and experience among the Americans, who had been badly shocked by the North Korean assault. "The first U.S. units into Korea were not much more than a mob in uniform," says Bernard Trainor, a military scholar and retired three-star Marine general who fought there. "They'd frighten quickly, and when they'd come under fire, they'd panic." But there was far more terror under the arches. "It was the worst hell that I could imagine," says Park Sun Yong, who was 23 at the time. The creek...
DIED. JUDITH EXNER, 65, rumored former mistress of John F. Kennedy and Mob boss Sam Giancana; of breast cancer; in Duarte, Calif. A sometime Rat Pack associate, Exner claimed to have been a conduit between Kennedy and Giancana...
...Crimson finally broke through with just under four minutes left in the first half. Mathers made the initial save off of a penalty corner, but Harvard kept the ball close to the goal, where Sarles emerged from the mob in front...
...only surprising thing might be that the U.S. investigators weren?t mugged on their way out of Moscow. In the latest development in the international investigation into links between the Russian mob and the Bank of New York, USA Today reports that U.S. gumshoes went to Russian officials last week for bank statements, audiotapes and documents relating to the possible diversion of nearly $15 billion from Russia to U.S. shores ? and were turned down flat. According to a U.S. investigator, Moscow called the request an "unnecessary intrusion" into its internal affairs, and later, Russian investigators visiting Washington claimed they...
PLAYING GODFATHER Being an upstanding citizen is honorable but dull. And it won't get you very far in Mob Rule, a new world-building game from Simon & Schuster Interactive ($40). Players create corrupt 1930s towns full of gambling dens, slaughterhouses and peep shows. When you're not bribing the police or hiring gangsters, you must keep your tenants happy with new restaurants and more subway stops. Who knew a thug's life was so complicated...