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...fifth-floor apartment, a grenade exploded in their path. The agents retreated outside the building. When reinforcements arrived, a gunman appeared at a fifth-floor window and began shooting at the officers, who returned fire with submachine guns. A second wave of police arrived and tried to smoke their targets out; they lobbed perhaps 20 tear-gas canisters into the apartment and shot hundreds of rounds at the windows. Finally, an assault team of five officers, some wearing gas masks, stormed in. They encountered little resistance; the men inside were exhausted and wounded. Two who still had ammunition were mowed...
WIVES OF BOOZERS What do the women who marry alcoholics have in common? Researchers interviewed 327 women and found that the wives of problem drinkers are less likely to be homemakers, more likely to use drugs and more likely to smoke cigarettes than women married to nonalcoholics. What is not clear is whether these women drive their husbands to drink or are drawn to drinkers...
...Fahm. The next day a man exploded his payload on a Tel Aviv bus, killing six people and wounding more than 50. Hours later, Israeli troops blasted Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Ramallah headquarters. The army destroyed nearly every building in the sprawling compound in an effort to smoke out about 20 wanted militants who are holed up inside with Arafat and his aides. Curfews were tightened in Ramallah and other West Bank towns. MEANWHILE Curse Of The Mummy What lies at the dark heart of the Pyramid of Khufu? National Geographic TV broadcast live the 60-m ascent...
Zhenzhen Lu ’06 was in class on the eighth floor of Stuyvesant High School, a few blocks north of Ground Zero, when the first planes hit. As the school evacuated, Lu said she couldn’t see the towers through all the smoke and dust...
...Zahner opened negotiations with the union last October and quickly tried to chummy up to its leadership to strike a deal. Zahner, who doesn't speak Korean, would show up early for negotiating sessions so he could smoke with the unionists and try to communicate with hand gestures. Kang In Hee, secretary-general of the union, reciprocated. At one meeting, Zahner asked about the red bandannas worn by all labor activists in Korea. Knowing Zahner's interest in the bandannas, Kang brought an extra one, and presented it to him as a gift. Zahner saw that moment as a breakthrough...