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About an hour later, two U.S. F-15 fighter jets took off from another Turkish base, bound for the same Iraqi "no-fly zone." They too had an air-tasking order, but with a fatal difference: they were told to set their friend-or-foe system to frequency 52. When the fighters, under orders to shoot down any Iraqi aircraft they encountered, saw two helicopters on their radar screens, their sophisticated electronics failed to identify the choppers as "friendly." After a hurried, heart-pounding attempt to confirm their suspicions visually, the fighter pilots fired two missiles that destroyed...
Civil society in Sarajevo had all but disappeared. With most cafes closed, people could no longer engage in the city's favorite pastime, sipping Turkish coffee and arguing. Eating was a dull affair, enlivened only by combining U.N. food packages in inventive ways. (The recipe for one popular preparation, "brains": fry onions in oil, then combine sour yeast and bread crumbs.) Spring had arrived, but children had given up playing volleyball, football and their nameless street games. Many shops were closed, and those that remained open were poorly stocked...
...FIRST NEWS CAME IN a whisper. The President was sitting in the Oval Office, smiling for photographers with Turkish Prime Minister Tansu Ciller, when Mike McCurry, the White House press secretary, bent close to his ear. CNN, McCurry said, was reporting that an explosion had destroyed part of a federal building in Oklahoma City. Stay on top of it, Clinton replied. The President then escorted Ciller to a meeting in the Cabinet Room. It was there that Leon Panetta, Clinton's chief of staff, passed the President a yellow legal pad with notes scribbled across the page with Panetta...
...planned White House meeting Wednesday with President Clinton, Turkish Prime Minister Tansu Ciller told TIME that her massive raids against Kurdish rebels across the Iraqi border are nearing an end, which should assuage growing nervousness on the part of U.S. and other Western allies concerning the military operation. Ciller also said that oil-producing nations are aiding Islamic opposition within Turkey, long a key democratic and economic Western ally. In an interview with TIME editors in New York, Ciller said she had begun to withdraw some of the 35,000 Turkish troops from the anarchic region of northern Iraq...
Nina Solarz, wife of former New York congressman Stephen Solarz, agreed today to plead guilty to two misdemeanor charges of writing a bad check on her husband's House bank account and improperly taking $7,500 from the American Friends of Turkish Women, a charity she runs. Mrs. Solarz admitted that she knew her husband's House account was overdrawn when she ordered a congressional staffer to write a check for $5,200 in 1990. She is not expected to serve jailtime. Ex-Rep. Solarz, who himself had a large number of overdrafts from the House Bank, was cleared...