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...chill of the cold war, the Soviet Union is said to have loaded enough germs and viruses, including smallpox, aboard intercontinental ballistic missiles targeted on the U.S. to infect an entire city, a tactic Saddam Hussein is thought to have tried to copy on a more modest scale with rocket-borne smallpox "bombs" that could hit targets up to 70 miles away. He never used them. Not that restraint has always been practiced. During World War II, Japanese planes dropped plague-infested fleas on Chinese and Soviet targets, while Britain plotted to kill German cattle with anthrax...
...Lions’ best scoring opportunity of the game came with about 20 minutes left in the match when Smart beat a Crimson defender, turned on another defender in the box and unleashed a rocket that sailed over...
...Film Festival. The brainchild of David Peck, a junior at Brown, the festival has already achieved great esteem due to the participation of such celebrity panelists and guest speakers as writer/director James Toback ’66 (Black & White, Bugsy and Harvard Man), producer Barbara Boyle (Bottle Rocket, Phenomenon and Instinct), actor/director Tim Blake Nelson (O, The Grey Zone and O Brother, Where Art Thou?) and the possibility of other notable personalities yet to be named. In addition to judging the submissions, these guest panelists will hold question and answer sessions with the participants, an invaluable opportunity for anyone interested...
...office in the West Bank city of Ramallah was to fellow leaders of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. "Unless we contribute militarily to the intifadeh," the P.F.L.P. chief wrote, "we will be marginalized and nobody will mention our name." Soon after, Zibri died in a helicopter rocket attack by Israel, which blamed him for a string of car bombs in the yearlong Palestinian uprising called the Aqsa intifadeh. Once the Muslim mourning period for Zibri ended last week, the P.F.L.P.'s military wing took its revenge in an unprecedented attack that has horrified Israelis. Now the P.F.L.P...
...Twenty boys is all we need to defend this base," he says with a glance around his embattled domain. "Plus a couple of rocket launchers and a machine gun. We can also call on fire support from tanks back at the second line." The boys come up for four or five days at a time, then rotate with a brother or cousin...