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Early in the war, Andris' father disappeared to the Russian front with a Jewish forced-labor battalion. When he returned, half starved, at the end of the war, he described how Hungarian guards, on a bitterly cold Russian night, forced the Jewish battalion to strip naked and climb trees, "and the guards sprayed them with water and watched and laughed as one after another fell out of the trees frozen to death...
...Russian President Putin may not have won an agreement with President Bush on missile defense, but he did get something else--besides kind words--during last week's summit: an unprecedented intelligence briefing from CIA chief George Tenet. Presidential chief of staff Andrew Card says the U.S. appreciates Russia's cooperation in the war against terror, and the briefing was intended partly "to acknowledge and thank President Putin." But trust has its limits. Left out of the briefing were specific details of Iran's efforts to obtain nuclear weapons. That seems strange, since the U.S. is unhappy that Russia...
...Afghanistan's neighbors have historically sought to shape her politics to their needs, from the 19th century "Great Game" between the Russian and British empires to the Soviet invasion of 1979 and Pakistan's intervention via the Taliban in the mid 1990s. The Northern Alliance has enjoyed the support of Iran, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Russia, each for their own reasons, while Pakistan threw its weight behind the Taliban. The regional dynamic may now be critical to international efforts at brokering a compromise. Even as it prioritizes the hunt for Osama bin Laden, on the diplomatic front the U.S. finds...
...sure to be a great photo op when Russian President Putin trots around President Bush's ranch this week. The two will stand shoulder to shoulder against terrorism and boast a series of economic and other agreements. Look closer, though, and you'll see saddle sores. Bush officials tell TIME that late last month Russia rejected a U.S.-proposed ceiling for strategic nuclear weapons, objecting that the proposed cap of about 2,000 warheads was still too high. The rebuff forced Under Secretary of State John Bolton to work through last week in Moscow to try to get the Russians...
...after absorbing 50 min. of hard pounding, the Taliban troops suddenly start shelling Hassan's command post with a Russian artillery piece that had been hidden on the left flank. "They are like dogs. They never give up. They must be Arabs," says Hassan. He orders his tanks to aim at the artillery piece, but it keeps shooting back, each shell getting closer to Hassan's position. The closest round lands 25 yds. from the trench before some soldiers--and the handful of journalists observing them--withdraw...