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...Mallat, professor of international law at St. Joseph University in Beirut. And as this stalemate deepens, Lebanese fear that another assassin's bomb will be used to try to break it. Walid Jumblatt, leader of Lebanon's Druze sect and a senior opposition figure, thinks he could be one target. In a television interview he called on his followers to "behave calmly and peacefully" should he be assassinated. "This is my last will and testament," said Jumblatt, who rarely leaves his heavily guarded home south of Beirut. Some opposition activists are taking extra security measures but many of them feel...
...could choose, Marwan would like his operation to be a car bombing targeting U.S. soldiers or Iraqi security forces far from any civilians. But if he is ordered to strap on explosives and walk to his target on a downtown street, he will do so. "We don't get to choose the mission," he says. "That is up to Allah." In fact, the decision will be made by a field commander of al-Zarqawi's group. Marwan hopes he will be chosen for a high-profile hit, the dramatic, headline-grabbing kind that al-Zarqawi is said to direct personally...
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...Nicaraguan accounts, as the craft dropped down to 2,500 ft. and prepared to discharge its cargo, a 19-year-old Sandinista soldier, José Fernando Corales Aleman, raised his shoulder-held, Soviet-made ground-to-air missile launcher and fired. The lumbering aircraft shuddered when the rocket found its target, then spiraled earthward, trailing smoke. While the soldiers cheered and slapped one an other on the back, a parachute popped open and a lone figure floated down behind some hills several miles away...
Before TWA's Icahn made his advance, USX had been considered a probable takeover target for some time. Wall Street analysts considered the diversified company, formerly known as U.S. Steel, to be drastically undervalued: its stock price in no way reflects its $21 billion in assets, which include $13.2 billion worth of oil and gas holdings. Many of those energy ventures, like the $6 billion acquisition of Marathon Oil in 1982, were engineered by strong-willed Chairman Roderick precisely to raise the ante for would-be raiders. With the steel and energy businesses reeling, Roderick last August decided to pick...