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...small town klutz, an aspiring hero, and a pudgy New England snob whose father thrusts him into the escadrille after he is expelled, coincidentally, from Harvard. Franco stars as Blaine Rawlings, a Texas farm boy who learns to overcome his idealism as he rockets to the top of the squadron, while fanning some embers with a local French refugee (Decker). Franco has come a long way since his role as the arrogant and wealthy Harry Osborn in “Spiderman,” or his days on the short-lived “Freaks and Geeks...
...children, who had taken shelter from a heavy Israeli bombardment in an apartment building in Qana. The incident remains under investigation, and few details of the actual attack are known. But an Israeli Colonel, who asked to be identified only by his initial A. and who commands a fighter squadron that has flown 1,000 sorties over Lebanon during the past 20 days, spoke exclusively to TIME about the agonizing choices in general that Israeli pilots are forced to make while fighting an enemy who disguises himself among the ordinary Lebanese people...
AFTERMATH: A U.S. EMPIRE In one of his last acts as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Roosevelt dispatched Commodore George Dewey and the U.S. Pacific Fleet to the Philippines. On May 1, 1898, Dewey destroyed the Spanish squadron at Manila Bay without a single U.S. casualty. A peace agreement was signed on Aug. 12, and with a formal treaty in December, Spain ceded Puerto Rico and Guam, sold the Philippines to the U.S. for $20 million and granted independence to Cuba PHILIPPINES Manila Guam
...spite of how relatively obscure their rebel cause is on the world stage, the attacks by Sri Lanka's Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam (L.T.T.E) always seem to draw lots of attention. Such was the case Thursday when a squadron of speedboat suicide bombers rammed into a Sri Lankan navy troop carrier convoy off the country's northern coast, killing 17 sailors. The Sri Lankan government claimed to kill more than 50 Tamil Tigers in return, but the deadly operation had already reminded the world that the Tigers are the fathers of modern-day suicide bombing - not only masters...
...such attack was against the American embassy in Beirut in 1983. They did however turn it into a vicious art form. Tigers adapted explosives so that they could be used on land, sea and air - thanks to the purchase of what Sri Lankan intelligence services say is a small squadron of microlight aircraft. Bombs were disguised to fit around, and even inside, the body. Among Tiger victims: a president, the head of the Sri Lankan air force, a minister of national security, an opposition leader and a former prime minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi. In July 2001, they blew...