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...explosive rounds from a 25-mm cannon, obliterating the two-man RPG teams, to quiet the boulevard. Two Iraqi guardsmen were killed, and U.S. commanders say their troops killed dozens of insurgents in the fire fight. But the attacks haven't subsided. "[The insurgents are] not intimidated," says Staff Sergeant Wilbert Tynes. "You've actually got to wipe them out to get rid of them...
...G.I.s of Task Force 1/9 admit to a growing dread about the persistence of the insurgency. "My initial feeling when I'm told we're going back in there is 'damn.' You sit and shake your head," says Staff Sergeant Bryan Keeping. Tynes tells his crew to pray, "'cause you never know what's going to happen. We could have a good day, and they could have a bad day. Or maybe not." Or maybe both. Late last month, after a joint U.S.-Iraqi sweep of Haifa Street, the Iraqi government announced that 263 had been detained in a sweep...
...Squad, according to the New York Times. He toiled fiercely--to transfer from Catholic University to Columbia; to become an assemblyman, mayor and state senator; and finally--after two grinding campaigns--to take the oath as Governor. "Plan your work; work your plan," his father--a former Marine drill sergeant--had taught...
Buildings aren't the only targets vulnerable to terror attack. TIME has learned that last Wednesday, the House Sergeant-at-Arms sent a memo to all representatives with a new security precaution in addition to the ones they had been advised to take after Sept. 11, 2001. After the 9/11 attack, the legislators were told to remove license plates on their cars that identify them as members of Congress and replace them with regular plates. And when they leave the congressional grounds they should take off the pins they wear on their coat lapels identifying them as congressmen...
REUNITED. HITOMI SOGA, 45, a Japanese woman abducted by North Korean agents in 1978, and her husband, CHARLES ROBERT JENKINS, 64, a former U.S. Army sergeant accused of deserting to the Stalinist state in 1965, and their daughters MIKA, 21, and BELINDA, 18; in Jakarta. Soga, who was kidnapped so she could teach Japanese to North Korean spies, hadn't seen her husband or daughters since October 2002, when Pyongyang let her and four other abductees return to Japan. When the family arrived at a Jakarta luxury hotel swarming with journalists, Jenkins, who has lived in North Korea for four...