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...stormed the Air France jetliner last week on the tarmac of Marseilles' Marignane Airport, killing the four hijackers in a brisk firefight and freeing the plane's 173 passengers and crew. Miraculously, none of the rescuers or hostages perished during the assault. Thirteen passengers, three crew members and nine policemen were wounded, only one seriously, in one of the most successful antiterrorist operations in aviation history...
...Guantanamo, however, there is an alternative to rebellion, and that is escape. Seven-foot-high rolls of barbed wire encircle the refugees. Dozens of military policemen monitor their every move, and land mines surround the base. But on average of twice a week, someone wakes up feeling skittish and bolts. According to military officials, 357 refugees, tired of languishing in the dusty, insect-ridden camp, have fled back home. Most of those who attempt to escape have already made official arrangements to be repatriated. The Cuban government has been accepting only 25 people a week...
...Mark from Michigan says he fears that America will be subsumed into "one big, fuzzy, warm planet where nobody has any borders." Samuel Sherwood, head of the United States Militia Association in Blackfoot, Idaho, tells followers, absurdly, that the Clinton Administration is planning to import 100,000 Chinese policemen to take guns away from Americans...
...like a scene from George Orwell's 1984. One quiet Monday night, two Ithaca policemen knocked at 21-year-old Cornell student Matt Mihaly's door. Refusing to show him an arrest warrant, they handcuffed him, shoved him into the back of a squad car and incarcerated him in the mental ward of the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hospital for two days. While he was there, they extracted blood against his will, placed him in psychotherapy and released him only on the condition that he pay the hospital's bill of several thousand dollars...
...Heidi Fleiss on three of five pandering charges -- effectively saying she ran a high-priced call girl ring -- but deadlocked on two other charges and acquitted her of selling cocaine to an undercover cop. The 28-year-old Fleiss, who had been arrested after providing $1,500 prostitutes for policemen posing as businessmen, slammed her hands on the table in frustration. She faces a maximum of six years in prison. (The trial shed no light on the identities of her supposedly-famous clients, since the judge ruled that information irrelevant.) BTW: The courtroom heat's not off yet: Fleiss...