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...operations across the West Bank had stretched the Israeli army thin. By March 30, Israeli troops were already occupying Ramallah and Bethlehem. On Monday, April 1, they would go into Tulkarem and Qalqilya. The elite Paratroop Brigade was poised outside Nablus. The 5th Brigade, scheduled for Jenin, was made up of reservists mostly in their late 20s and early 30s, but the brass thought they could handle the tough assignment. "There were indications it was going to be hard," says Major General Dan Harel, the army's operations chief. "But we didn't think it was going...
...Judged on apparent realism, it earns them. It effectively borrows the jerky, chaotic camera techniques that Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan (which Hanks starred in) used to mimic the soldiers' confused, terrified perspective. It is based closely on historian Stephen Ambrose's book about Easy Company, an elite paratroop unit that had the dubious luck to land knee-deep in key moments of the war in Europe, from D-day to the Battle of the Bulge to the capture of Hitler's mountain fortress. And it has gone through the same, now obligatory seal-of-approval process as Ryan: screenings...
...headquarters near Columbus, Ohio, retailing has become akin to moviemaking. The theme is popularity, and it's packaged, marketed and playing at a mall near you. Every flannel and fleece pullover is choreographed to present the appearance of effortless cool. Yes, the tag on the $59.90 paratroop pants proclaims that they've been TESTED, but that's a prop, part of the romantic retail fantasy. "You buy into the emotional experience of a movie," says the director, CEO Michael Jeffries. "And that's what we're creating. Here I am walking into a movie, and I say, 'What's going...
...have produced numerous false starts towards peace, the job of actually negotiating Russia's way out of an increasingly thorny situation is not an easy one. The latest to try his hand: Newly named Russian special envoy to Chechnya Alexander Lebed. After returning from Chechnya on Monday, the former-paratroop general condemned the Russian army's conduct of the war and announced he had a concrete plan to end the fighting, if the government would only concentrate enough power in his hands. Lebed wants control of all army units in the Chechnya, and the authority to appoint federal officials...
Actions as well as words have earned him admiration. During the hard-liners' attempted coup of 1991, for example, he led a paratroop squad that protected Yeltsin's headquarters, the White House. Tiraspol is the capital of Trans-Dniestr, a region of Moldova, one of the former Soviet republics. The inhabitants of Trans-Dniestr are largely Russian and Ukrainian, and for several years they have sought independence from Moldova. Lebed was sent to the region in 1992 to take command of the Fourteenth Army, and he intervened in the conflict between Moldovans and the Russian-speaking population. He has remained...