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...Russian forces in Chechnya lost two Mi-8 helicopters within two days. The first exploded and crashed, killing 14, including General Mikhail Rudchenko, Deputy Interior Minister in charge of the North Caucasus, General Nikolai Garidov, commander of the interior troops in Chechnya, and three colonels. Conflicting versions emerged about the cause of the crash, including a missile fired by separatists, sabotage and an accident. The second chopper was downed by separatists? automatic weapons, and caught fire when it landed. All 15 people aboard survived. LEBANON Arab Summit Interior Ministers from 17 Arab countries held a two-day meeting to discuss...
...Zadran of having deliberately misinformed the U.S. about the nature of the convoy, in order to have his rivals eliminated. Zadran, in turn, vigorously denies the charge. And when his forces tried to claim the seat of power on Tuesday, they were dispatched by Saifullah's men in a two-day battle...
...history of race relations in America, there are quite a few blank spaces. Here are two books determined to fill them in. Riot and Remembrance: The Tulsa Race War and Its Legacy, by James S. Hirsch (Houghton Mifflin; 358 pages; $25), is a quietly devastating account of Tulsa's two-day convulsion of blood and of the struggle years later to return the riot to living memory through a commission of inquiry. Philip Dray's At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America (Random House; 528 pages; $35) is a powerful history of a practice so common...
...Daocheng, a two-day bus ride from the Sichuan capital, Chengdu, rent a jeep and follow the road past thick forests and open fields, where herds of yaks make their way down to winter grazing grounds, to the Yading Nature Reserve. Once in Yading, trade in your mud-spattered jalopy for a hardy Tibetan pony that can better fare the torturous 14-km trek to Luorong Pasture. From there the view of the Konkaling range is breathtaking. Farther along, the three sacred peaks of Chenrezig, Chanadorje and Jambeyang?named after a trinity of Tibetan deities?loom over the landscape...
...Crimson’s only bright spot Saturday, pouring in a game-high 24 points. Harvey shot 8-of-17 overall—including 4-of-8 from the three-point line—while playing a game-high 34 minutes. He received All-Tournament honors for his two-day performance...