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...behind a leader whose legislative abilities Bush respects and needs for the fights ahead. Bush still calls DeLay a friend, although spokesman Scott McClellan pointedly noted last week that "there are different levels of friendship." The President's team is increasingly frustrated by the majority leader's inability to mount a defense more persuasive than blaming his problems on a liberal conspiracy. DeLay, says a senior Administration official, "is handling this like an idiot...
...massive earthquakes and the Dec. 26 tsunami weren't enough, Indonesia has a new geological concern: a string of volcanoes threatening to erupt. Tens of thousands of residents living near Mount Talang on the island of Sumatra fled their homes after the mountain began spewing hot ash last Tuesday. Two days later, Mount Tangkuban Parahu, a 2,084-m peak only 16 km from Bandung, the country's third-largest city, grumbled to life, bringing to 11 the number of Indonesian volcanoes now being monitored for possible eruption...
Pearl Harbor is no excuse for Hiroshima. The Japanese attacked a military base; they did not incinerate downtown Honolulu. The atom bomb could have been exploded over Tokyo Bay, within sight of the Emperor. Even the flattening of Mount Fuji would have been preferable to carbonizing humans. Jake Cipris Millburn...
...Konstantin Chernenko, was too ill to travel then, and indeed died only a few weeks later. By contrast, Gorbachev impressed his Warsaw Pact comrades with the vitality and ease of command he has demonstrated in the Soviet Union. When the two days of secret talks at the foot of Mount Vitosha were over, Gorbachev had sent a message to allies and adversaries alike: the Warsaw Pact, whose 6 million fighting men make it the world's largest military machine, was in capable hands...
...front of some 50 journalists gathered in the new bunker-like Soviet compound atop Mount Alto in northwest Washington, Yurchenko vehemently insisted that he had never defected. Occasionally smirking, often scowling, always looking tough and in command, he freely alternated between Russian and English as he spun his tale of being "forcibly abducted" in Rome by American agents, drugged and flown to the U.S. against his will. For "three horrible months" he was held at a safe house in Fredericksburg, Va., Yurchenko claimed, taking apparent glee at revealing its exact location and details. Only on Nov. 2, when...