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...weapons were tracking them," said Colonel Roger King, a Pentagon spokesman at Bagram air base, north of Kabul. So the gunship--a flying arsenal loaded with machine guns and a 105-mm howitzer--fired on the compound. Subsequent comments by U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld did little to soften the blow. "There cannot be the use of that kind of firepower and not have mistakes," he said. "It is going to happen...
After Sept. 11 jolted the campus and country toward a more pro-military outlook, Summers may have believed at one point that he could soften Harvard’s approach to ROTC without inciting backlash from the Harvard community...
...Commission plans. "This is a death sentence for our fishing industry," says Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, a Spanish conservative and member of the European Parliament. Publication of Fischler's proposals was delayed after Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar reportedly pressured Commission President Romano Prodi to soften the reforms. Around the same time Steffen Smidt, the Danish chief of the Commission bureaucracy on fisheries and a strong supporter of the plans, was dismissed, prompting charges that he was forced out for opposing any changes. Then E.U. transport and energy Commissioner Loyola de Palacio, a Spanish conservative with...
...expects Castro to significantly soften his autocratic rule. But his new posture could complicate things for George W. Bush. Like Flake, most congressional Representatives now believe U.S. engagement is the best way to foster democracy in Cuba. But Bush and his brother, Florida Governor Jeb Bush, are politically beholden to such figures as Armando Perez Roura, the patriarch of Miami's rabidly anti-Castro Radio Mambi. Perez, 74, still mobilizes more of Florida's half a million Cuban votes than any other exile leader. Those votes went to Bush I and later to Bush II, whose controversial, narrow victory owed...
...expects Castro to significantly soften his autocratic rule. But his new posture could complicate things for George W. Bush. Like Flake, most congressional Representatives now believe U.S. engagement is the best way to foster democracy in Cuba. But Bush and his brother, Florida Governor Jeb Bush, are politically beholden to such figures as Armando Perez Roura, the patriarch of Miami's rabidly anti-Castro Radio Mambi. Perez, 74, still mobilizes more of Florida's half a million Cuban votes than any other exile leader. Those votes went to Bush I and later to Bush II, whose controversial, narrow victory owed...