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...armed warlords. That's why this week's polls are potentially so important. Yet there's no guarantee they will help stabilize the country. Historically, power in Afghanistan has been seized; asking for votes is an unfamiliar exercise. Indeed, campaign posters plastered on walls, windows and rusting Soviet-era tanks around the country reflect a vagueness of mission. "Truth, faithfulness, good work. Think of me and my agenda when you vote," pleads one candidate. Others promise peace, demilitarization and reconstruction?noble goals, for sure, but hardly likely to be within their reach. What's more, all 5,800 candidates...
...years I have found it difficult to support NASA, a government operation that I believe is basically a welfare program for aeronautical engineers. After a hiatus of 2 1/2 years, NASA engineers launched the Discovery shuttle and encountered the same problem?falling insulation foam from the external fuel tank during lift-off?that doomed the previous shuttle, the Columbia, in 2003. NASA's engineers, managers and technicians should refund to the government the full amount of their salaries and benefits for the past 2 1/2 years. Rod Rawson Miami...
...years I have found it difficult to support nasa, a government operation that I believe is basically a welfare program for aeronautical engineers. After a hiatus of 21⁄2 years, nasa engineers launched the Discovery shuttle and encountered the same problem - falling insulation foam from the external fuel tank during lift-off - that doomed the previous shuttle, the Columbia, in 2003! nasa's engineers, managers and technicians should refund to the government the full amount of their salaries and benefits for the past 21⁄2 years. Rod Rawson Miami Now that the Discovery shuttle is safely back...
...siege last September, when more than 1,100 people?many of them children?were held by terrorists loyal to Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev. At least 331 people died, including 186 children, in a chaotic rescue operation during which Russian security forces hit the school with incendiary grenades and tank shells. The fire brigade waited two hours before putting out the blaze that engulfed the gymnasium in which the hostages were being held...
...Only Kesayev's commission of inquiry has broken new ground, forcing prosecutors and military officers to admit that rocket-launched incendiary grenades and tank shells had been used, details that had previously been denied. Russian officials say these weapons did not cause the fire in the school, and tanks were called in only after all the surviving hostages had been freed. Kesayev, who was in the Russian emergency command center in Beslan throughout the crisis, also claims that the Kremlin deliberately failed to respond to an offer by moderate Chechen guerrilla leader Aslan Maskhadov (killed by Russian special forces...