Word: soldierly
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Harvard's role would probably be "limited" to housing some of the expected 10,000 athletes and making Soldier's Field available for events, University spokesperson Joe Wrinn said yesterday...
...then, at about 8 p.m., an hour before the original deadline was to expire, Israeli special forces attacked the house in Bir-Nabala, blowing open the doors with explosives and charging inside. One Israeli soldier died in the fire fight and 12 were injured. Three kidnappers were killed and another was captured, along with an alleged accessory. According to Israeli officials, Waxman was found inside the house, bound in chains and shot by his captors at point-blank range in the neck and chest. Army sources believe Waxman was executed during the siege or just before, perhaps after the gunmen...
...ended in 1991: "If I could find a way to get him out of there, even putting a contract out on him . . . I would be for it." Only Ross Perot is as publicly bold today, but the words "unfinished business" are on almost everyone's lips. From the soldier in the desert to the folks at home, most Americans (72% in the latest TIME/CNN poll) favor using military force to remove Saddam Hussein. The White House too seems on board. If it comes to war, says chief of staff Leon Panetta elliptically, "I can tell you one thing...
...grim challenge to the Israeli-Palestinian peace accords ended in bloodshed with the death of hostage Nahshon Waxman, a 19-year-old Israeli soldier who was being held by members of the radical Palestinian group Hamas. Waxman, another Israeli soldier and three of the captors were killed during a rescue attempt by Israeli commandos, which came an hour before the expiration of the militants' original deadline for sparing Waxman's life. Under pressure from both Israel and the U.S., P.L.O. chairman Yasser Arafat's security forces had arrested some 300 alleged Hamas activists in the Gaza Strip in a vain...
Hamas kidnappers and their captive soldier...