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...Grozny at night, knowing nothing of the city, in a fog so thick you could barely see 10 steps ahead. The commander of a tank battalion told me that he had to train his soldiers at the front, since they had been assigned to him only days before the unit was deployed in Chechnya. ``You wouldn't believe it,'' he told me. ``There were noncommissioned officers who had studied for six months and didn't know anything about tanks. I had to teach them how to turn a turret.'' According to the plans of the military command, this battalion...
Take away Farrell and Baird on offense and McCann's prowess on defense and the power play, and you have a drastic reduction in offense and an anemic power play (1-4 last night, the goal scored by the second unit...
When you define an ethnic group as a political unit you divide society into competing and ultimately irreconcilable racial groups. Rather than sharing common human goals of prosperity and liberty, racial politics emphasizes relative inequalities and who's in charge. Affirmative action appears as the "solution" to the crippling economic and social disintegration in the inner cities...
...injuring 194. But Israel's agony is palpably greater over this latest atrocity. These victims were so young: all but one of the 21 dead Israelis were between the ages of 18 and 24. And all except one were soldiers, mainly members of the vanguard paratroopers unit. That may have made the attack seem like a legitimate act of guerrilla warfare to Palestinians. But the act of terror was especially shocking to Israelis: these fallen were the very men and women who were supposed to safeguard the rest of the nation from such assaults...
...Organization poured in, but some were subjectedto endless bureaucratic wrangling. Examples: foreign doctors were rebuffed at first because they did not have Japanese licenses; Swiss sniffer dogs were threatened with quarantine by the Agriculture Ministry. Conditions in the stricken port city, however, are improving, with 18,600 emergency housing units under way, thousands of workmen busily laying new telephone and electric cables and, most cheering of all, the reopening of Kobe's schools. Middle East: Another Bombing A Palestinian suicide bombing in the heart of Israel took the lives of 21 Israelis and wounded 64 others, sending waves of shock...