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...remain. Which means it's only a matter of time until someone else gets his chance to be saved. OIL A Pipe Dream Comes True Sometimes a pipe is just a pipe. A few years ago, the planned Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline from the Caspian Sea through Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey and into the Mediterranean was touted by the U.S. as a way to get the Caspian's rich oil reserves without going through Russia. But there was a hitch: oil companies weren't terribly interested. With prices and demand still growing and U.S.-Russia relations improved, Cambridge Energy Research analyst...
After the aerial pounding, the U.S. (with whatever allies it could muster) would shift to a ground war, probably launched from Kuwait and other gulf states from the south and from Turkey, as well as three bases in the U.S.-friendly Kurdish part of Iraq from the north. This phase would probably begin with U.S. forces' seizing the cities of Basra in the south and Mosul in the north. President Bush has not decided what size force should invade Iraq. The military prefers to send in about 250,000 troops, but some Administration officials think only about 80,000 would...
...widow may also provide evidence against Ay. A cuneiform document reports that a letter was sent from an unnamed widowed Egyptian Queen to the Hittite King in what is now Turkey, pleading that one of his sons be sent south to marry her. The writer's fear was that she would otherwise be forced to wed one of her "servants." Ankhesenamen, as onetime Queen, would surely have seen Ay as a servant. Some people, including Cooper and King, believe that an ancient ring bearing her and Ay's names indicates that the two were in fact married, a move that...
...Rockwell Group's 90 employees (Rockwell calls them "collaborators") are charged with finding unusual materials to build with. And in the casino he had the means to use every crayon in the box. He wove strips of birch bark together for some of the walls, encased turkey feathers and dried corn husks in glass for others. The lobby is delineated by trees made of cedar, old copper joints and beads, and is punctuated by a 55-ft. indoor waterfall. Gamblers try their luck in the glow of Wombi Rock, a mountain made of onyx and alabaster fused onto glass, which...
...testimony, 300 exhibits and 124 witnesses, prosecutors in the U.N. war-crimes trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic ended the portion of their case dealing with the massacres and forced deportation of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. Prosecutors believe their circumstantial evidence against Milosevic will secure his conviction. TURKEY Fatal Protest A woman prisoner became the 65th person to die in a hunger strike protesting the conditions under which political prisoners are held in Turkey's maximum security jails. Hamide Ozturk, 32, died in hospital in Istanbul; she had been serving a 12-year sentence for membership in the banned...