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Pentagon officials interpreted his conversion as a classic illustration of the maxim: "If you can't lick 'em, join 'em." Constant, they said, had turned to American authorities after the raid with an offer to help them damp down violence, and they had accepted. Fritz Joseph, a FRAPH member who has gone into hiding, has a less charitable interpretation. Referring to Constant and Michel Francois, the police chief who has fled into exile in the Dominican Republic, Joseph says, "They both cut deals for themselves and left everyone else who worked with them without protection...
...size model of the Laotian camp based on satellite photos and took it to Fort Bragg in North Carolina to help the JSOC with its planning. Members of the Delta Force say the commandos then planned to construct a full-scale mock- up in the Philippines to practice its raid; as cover, it would pretend to be a Hollywood company shooting a commando movie. The JSOC sent intelligence officers to scout a remote airstrip in Thailand, where cargo planes carrying MH-6 helicopters would land to stage the airborne assault. Officers then in the unit say the plan...
...Mastroianni, whose world-weary charisma so comfortably bears every man's crimes and charms. But finally it is the film's images that seize the memory. You won't soon forget the bleached radiance of a seaside wedding reception, the shadows caressing Dona Leonor on her midnight raid to smash dwarf statues on a nearby lawn, the face of a girl who wonders if she is the pawn of a lady's possessiveness or the beneficiary of a gentleman's genial lust...
...soldiers raided the Port-au-Prince headquarters of the hated Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haitia (FRAPH), and several other locations, in the most dramatic strike yet against the ruling junta's recalcitrant militiamen. The move came hours after pro-junta Haitians in the southwestern town of Les Cayes shot and wounded a U.S. Special Forces soldier. After the raid -- in which about 100 U.S. Army personnel detained at least 10 armed Haitians, including a woman who packed a pistol in her bra -- a crowd of club-wielding pro-democracy demonstrators surged into the compound, trashing and smashing...
...Raid the toilet paper supply in your house super's office. You needn't wait for the first snow of the winter to impress parents strolling through house courtyards. Imagine: toilet-paper snowpeople in Mid-November! And if your House experiences a run on those fluffy white rolls, old copies of the Lampoon might just finish...