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...repressive rule helped lead the country into poverty and the status of least-developed nation by 1987. When he died, Ne Win, who once demanded that Burmese currency be issued in notes divisible by his lucky number, 9, was under house arrest for allegedly plotting to overthrow the current regime...
...allegiance and cooperation from Northern Alliance and Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. This initiative was perhaps the most successful of the U.S. campaign: it mobilized Afghan resistance against the Taliban at a relatively low cost, allowing the U.S. to support, rather than direct, the Taliban’s eventual overthrow...
...Iraq, Kuwait being the main depot. An additional 45,000 troops could rapidly be flown into the region to be married up with materiel stockpiled since the 1991 war at Diego Garcia, a seven-day sail away. Some military experts think 75,000 troops would be sufficient to overthrow Saddam. They could certainly start the effort while the U.S. pumped more forces into the theater...
DIED. RICHARD HELMS, 89, former CIA director who presided over some of the agency's most controversial operations during the Vietnam War and Watergate eras; in Washington. The famously secretive spy master plotted to overthrow Chilean President Salvador Allende and assassinate Cuba's Fidel Castro with, among other things, poisoned cigars. Domestically, Helms headed a legally dubious scheme to spy on anti--Vietnam War activists. Fired by President Nixon for refusing to block an FBI probe into the Watergate break-in, he was later found guilty of covering up spy operations in Cuba and Chile to congressional investigators. The conviction...
...that all sounds bad, here's worse. The great triumph of the war against terrorism, so far, has been the overthrow of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and the destruction of al-Qaeda's camps there. But U.S. security sources in Afghanistan tell TIME that there is now clear evidence that al-Qaeda is reestablishing camps across the border from Afghanistan in Pakistan. On a recent trip, a TIME reporter accompanied paratroopers from Task Force Panther, based in southeastern Afghanistan, as they patrolled the frontier (see below). Captain Patrick Willis of the 82nd Airborne says camps in Pakistan around...