Word: towards
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...access road leading to the barrier, only to be halted by a car exiting from the other direction. Suspicious, said Bwaku, of the truck's "terrible speed," he lowered the barrier. A man in a plaid shirt and baggy pants jumped out from the passenger side and marched toward him. "Open the gate," he demanded, and when Bwaku, armed only with a wooden club and walkie-talkie, hesitated, the man plunged both hands into his deep pockets and pulled out what Bwaku recognized as a grenade in his left hand and several small devices with dangling wires in his right...
...Laden is thought to be a major financier of terror groups and is the prime suspect in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers military barracks in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 U.S. servicemen. While his declared goal is the overthrow of the Saudi monarchy, bin Laden's bitterness toward the U.S. is just as strong. "All Muslims," he said last May, "must declare jihad against them." Such general threats do not help U.S. intelligence officials sort through the 30,000 they receive each year to pick out the real warnings. And African embassies, by any measure, seemed...
...possible suspects is sizable. Iran, Iraq and Libya all have means and motives to hit the U.S. in Africa, but officials say Saddam Hussein or Muammar Gaddafi would have little to gain and much to lose if caught in such a brazen act of aggression. Investigators will also look toward renegade extremists within the Iranian government who seek to disrupt the inching rapprochement between the West and moderate President Mohammed Khatami. Sudan, one of the main havens for terrorists today, could have provided the bombers with training, money, explosives, phony documents, safe passage and refuge, but is not known...
...crime is of a lesser degree--more an act of slothful corner cutting than corrupt journalism. Should he fall, many believe it will have less to do with the Carlin incident than an arrogance that has long irked colleagues--and the need for the paper to act as tough toward a white man as it did toward Smith, a black woman...
There are a few ways you can send your children off to college and not be worried about all these calculations and caveats. You could be Bill Gates and buy the college of your choice. You could steer them toward one of the five U.S. service academies, where an appointment comes almost entirely at taxpayers' expense, or toward Berea or the Webb Institute, where tuition is free. Or you could get a job with Wilson Greatbatch Ltd. in Clarence, N.Y., which has an education fund that pays the full freight for company employees and their children. But chances are, those...