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Military officials refer to Nolte and his roving confreres as unilaterals. Reporters prefer to call them free-lancers. More bluntly, they are pool busters: reporters who are circumventing the superintended pool system imposed by the military to limit the number of journalists venturing into the Middle East battlefield. In the grand tradition of buccaneering war correspondents, these reporters are taking risks to give audiences a fuller picture of what is happening in the gulf...
...problems began with ORGASM posters which read "Stop the Church" twice in large, bold letters, described policies of the Church as "murderous" and employed fighting language to incite anger against the Church. The ACT-UP protest to which the posters refer and which the video documents is infamous among Catholics, many of whom know from detailed press accounts that it involved not only disruption of a Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral, but desecration of the Eucharist, perhaps the most precious symbol in the Catholic faith...
...restricted military electronic equipment from the West are only beginning to filter out. The inventory is believed to include sensors and advanced radar modifications, night-vision apparatus and devices designed to counter the West's own electronic measures. Saddam's warning of a "surprise" for the coalition may refer to this sensitive area of technology...
However, Mr. Balagur grossly misquoted me in this context as referring to "connections between this war and how colored people are treated..." I do not use the phrase "colored people" to refer to persons of color and did not do so when speaking with Mr. Balagur. That phrase, with its unfortunate heritage in the Jim Crow tradition, is generally considered offensive and I very much regret that an apparent transcription error caused Mr. Balagur to attribute it to me. Ellen J. Messing...
...Aviv mother, faces a torrent of questions from her sons Jonathan, 6, and Daniel, 10, who ask about weapons systems and moving to a safer place. "I have told them that the chances statistically of us getting hurt are very small," she says. "As for military questions, I refer them to their father...