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...zones. For now, the White House will respond to each provocation by counterattacking the offending battery. The Pentagon has no doubt what Saddam is up to. He hopes one of the SAMs will find its target and that a "golden BB will get him an American pilot," says a U.S. general. It would be a prized bargaining chip in the standoff, but even if Saddam fails, "defiance is still more important than success," says Georgetown University expert Amatzia Baram. After enduring four days of U.S. bombing, "Saddam needs to show his people he can bloody the American nose...
...pilot episode of the Fox network's new animated sitcom The PJs, Thurgood Orenthal ("Goody") Stubbs, the superintendent of an inner-city housing project, tries to chase a swarm of vagrants out of his embattled building. "Well, I'd love to stay and chat," says one, a series regular named Smokey, "but crack don't smoke itself...
...Meanwhile, there?s no sign of an end to the battle of the ?no-fly? zones. As Saddam works to drum up Arab support, TIME Middle East bureau chief Scott MacLeod believes he is hoping that provoking aerial combat will bag him the ultimate propaganda prize -- a downed U.S. pilot...
With record numbers of passengers taking to the skies and the busy holiday-travel season at hand, stressed-out travelers with less room to stretch are increasingly directing their anger at flight crews, punching an attendant, head butting a co-pilot or trying to break into the cockpit. "Passenger interference is the most pervasive security problem facing airlines," Captain Stephen Luckey of the Air Line Pilots Association testified before Congress. Though still relatively small, the number of incidents is estimated to have at least doubled in recent years. Nearly a thousand episodes took place within U.S. jurisdiction last year...
Stopping by woods on a snowy day, three men discover a small, crashed plane that contains a dead pilot and a large sum of cash. They devise A Simple Plan to make off with the loot, and we are obliged to watch that plan unravel for what seems to be an eternity...