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Erdmann’s plans to ship to Kosovo were disrupted when he received a phone call from Richard N. Haass, who had just become the director of policy planning in the State Department, as The New Yorker described in a recent feature...
Those closest to the gears of the global economy were the first to notice the coming storm in China. Albert Stahl, a London ship broker, watched the spot-market price for cargo-vessel leases rise last winter to $22,000 a day for a ship big enough to transport iron ore. He assumed the spike was due to the impending Iraq war. But through the summer the price kept increasing; shipowners even stopped giving quotes in expectation that prices would jump again the following day. Then Stahl began hearing reports of vessels the size of three football fields anchored...
...became a frightening reality: three men were able to bypass screening in a foreign country and get onboard a cargo aircraft that flew into one of the U.S.'s largest airports, Miami International. It was a chilling echo of an incident last year where a man was able to ship himself in a box on a cargo flight within the U.S. "This is more disturbing evidence that without actual inspection of cargo, our security system will remain vulnerable," says Paul Rancatore, a security expert for the Coalition of Airline Pilots Association...
KERRY: I've run a lot of different things, and I've run them well. And the skill, the test, is leadership. If you ask my men in the military and those who worked with me, there was no one who ever doubted. I've had major ships under my command in a tactical situation. I was able to call in air strikes, rockets, ships, troops, helicopters. I've exercised major responsibility, life and death. I've exercised responsibility as officer of the deck of a ship carrying nuclear weapons. I've exercised responsibility as a Lieutenant Governor, when...
...North Korean torpedo boats; one sailor was killed and 10 wounded, including Bucher. After giving up without resisting, Bucher and the crew spent nearly a year in harsh captivity before a negotiated settlement brought them home. A Navy court later recommended that Bucher be court-martialed for surrendering the ship without firing a shot, but Navy Secretary John J. Chafee overruled the decision, saying the men of the Pueblo had suffered enough...