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...violence ended, officials variously described the attack as an attempt to seize arms or even capture the city. The guerrilla teams were big enough to terrorize, but not to hold their targets. It was not clear whether any rebels made away with stolen weapons. For the guerrillas, the Nalchik raid was a savage, politically successful piece of armed propaganda. Many of the fighters seemed ready to die, and many did, though the death toll is hard to gauge as both sides distort casualty figures. A government source, who wished to remain anonymous because his estimate deviates from the official line...
...western towns Saturday, causing voters to stay away from the polling booths. In the capital, however, there were attacks by gunmen at only four polling stations and a few ineffectual mortars. By 5 p.m., when polls closed, there were few reports of deaths. One incident surfaced of an insurgent raid on a polling station in the Abu Ghraib neighborhood. The attackers killed the supervisor there and made off with five boxes of ballots. Nevertheless, the day was still in marked contrast to the January election, which saw more than 100 attacks, including suicide bombings, killing at least 40 people...
...kidnapping of Muhammad Ouathi, a French-Algerian journalist. Members of the brigades swiped Ouathi in Gaza City on Aug. 14. Abu Samhadana stepped in to negotiate, persuading Palestinian officials to release, in return for the liberty of the journalist, 10 of his men held by the police for a raid on Gaza's central jail in January...
...Students can use film to understand post-Stonewall history and queer culture in America,” McCarthy says, referring to the now-famous 1969 police raid on a gay club which ignited the modern gay rights movement. Secondly, McCarthy expressed a desire to make LBGT issues more visible on campus. “The university should be place where these issues are debated and discussed...
...these subterranean redoubts were manned by soldiers from the Royal Observer Corps; on guard today are uniformed mannequins, their lifelessness adding an apocalyptic chill to the air. It's like a musty James Bond film inside. Sixties teletypewriters, radar blips showing "hostile Soviet sorties" and air-raid target maps of the world (all donated by the Ministry of Defence) re-create the atmosphere of the atomic age. The mood shifts from the terrifying to the ridiculous in the onsite cinemas, where plummy BBC voices calmly instruct the nation on how to protect their homes against the big one. Sandbags, they...