Word: revoltingly
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...over the convicted. During his 26 years of dictatorship, Ne Win isolated Burma and led it to economic ruin. His offspring haven't raised the bar. Accustomed to privileges of power, including sweetheart business deals, Aye Zaw Win and the grandsons were cast by prosecutors as gangsters who plotted revolt when authorities threatened their luxurious lifestyles. As for Ne Win, 91, he's been under house arrest since the plot was discovered in March. There's doubt he will ever be tried. It's likely the death sentences will be commuted to life in prison by the Supreme Court. Still...
...July 6, 1917, Lawrence led his combined armies to victory at Aqaba, taking the town from the Turks?a key battle in the Arab revolt. Today, only the 15th century fort, built by the Mamluk sultan Qansweh al-Ghuri, hints at Aqaba's early history. The fort has always been the symbolic heart of Aqaba and, when it fell to his troops, Lawrence knew he had completed his journey to victory. For those on the tour, too, Aqaba is the final destination, complete with a celebratory open-air feast in the fort's courtyard, the sound of battle cries replaced...
...could attack key targets inside the city with long-range weapons. Such a siege could help nurture one prized U.S. goal: Saddam's falling at the hands of his own people. "Baghdad is one of those classic cities that happen to contain all the kindling necessary to spark a revolt," says Scales. "You'd have the ruling elite and the army cheek by jowl with the people, who despise both the elite and the army." --With reporting by Matt Rees and Aharon Klein/Jerusalem
...that Saddam secretly runs Ansar. According to Safire's unsourced pronouncement, a Saddam intelligence operative and a senior bin Laden agent helped coordinate an assault by Ansar militants to assassinate the secular, pro-American Kurdish leadership last year. Both, he claimed, were captured when Kurdish forces put down the revolt. Safire also fingered Saddam's agents as the men behind Ansar's crude attempts to make poison weapons that drew Pentagon attention...
...dismay of the Bush Administration, it's a banner waving over a large swath of South America. Coca eradication is the linchpin of Washington's antidrug strategy. The widening revolt against it is the loudest sign yet of a new resentment toward the U.S. in Latin America, where free-market reforms pushed by Washington have left much of the region's 500 million people poorer. A former parliamentary Deputy from Bolivia's central coca-growing region, Morales in the past was often dismissed as a radical relic in the land where Che Guevara died. But today he's strong enough...