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Pollard's arrest soon turned into an ugly diplomatic snarl. Despite its promises to cooperate with American authorities in investigating the episode, Israel recalled from the U.S. two diplomats apparently involved in the case: Yosef Yagur, the science attaché at the New York City consulate, and Ilan Ravid, deputy science attaché in the Washington embassy. The U.S. demanded that the two officials be returned for questioning...
Impatient with the organizational snarl, some Congressmen want to establish the Special Forces as an entirely separate service. Republican Senator William Cohen of Maine is pushing a plan that would carve out all of the Special Forces missions performed by the military and put them under a new civilian-run agency, reporting to the Secretary of Defense, that would control and deploy the units...
...morning rush hour in Baghdad, and the emergency-room staff at Yarmouk Hospital is bracing itself for another grim load. Insurgent groups routinely mount their biggest attacks during the commuter crush: the heavy traffic guarantees them a high death toll, and the ensuing snarl-ups prevent police and military units from giving chase. For medical workers like Dr. Jalal Taha Emad, an emergency-room surgeon, each day begins with a foreboding of the mayhem to come. "When I am on my way to work, I sometimes look at people in the cars around me and wonder how many of them...
...outset, however, such concerns were forgotten amid a conventioneers' snarl over accommodations. Although Kenya had spent part of its $1.6 million investment to spruce up Nairobi's streets, buildings and dormitories, authorities were unprepared for the huge turnout. In addition to the 3,000 delegates registered for the official conference, some 10,000 arrived for Forum '85. The Forum turnout was more than three times the number expected, and government authorities tried to forestall a crush by announcing that Nairobi's 4,000 hotel rooms would be held for the delegates to the official conference. But the hundreds of Forum...
...adult life. "My son was 6, and my daughter was 5, and I didn't want their friends' parents to be frightened of me," says Idol. "So I thought, All right, I've got to knock all this on the head. Heh!" Idol, who still has the snarl and the spiky hair (the leather has given way to more breathable fabrics), barks a jolly "heh!" after almost every sentence he utters, even the ones in which he describes spending much of the '90s wondering how he had become uncool. "At first you think there's something wrong with...