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...Hawk helicopter got caught on a sand dune near the Dalbandin runway, lost its balance and flopped over, killing two crew members and injuring three others, according to a Pakistani witness. American servicemen who returned safely to Dalbandin were so jittery that they refused to brief Pakistani military officers unless the officers removed their gun holsters before approaching the helicopters. Elsewhere in Afghanistan, bands of U.S. troops continued their covert search-and-destroy missions. The ground...
...last letters Mustafa Zibri wrote from his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah was to fellow leaders of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. "Unless we contribute militarily to the intifadeh," the P.F.L.P. chief wrote, "we will be marginalized and nobody will mention our name." Soon after, Zibri died in a helicopter rocket attack by Israel, which blamed him for a string of car bombs in the yearlong Palestinian uprising called the Aqsa intifadeh. Once the Muslim mourning period for Zibri ended last week, the P.F.L.P.'s military wing took its revenge in an unprecedented attack...
This ignores the latest twist on a now familiar argument: that unless we dress up in grotesque or silly frocks and ask people for junk food, the terrorists will have won. "Halloween is the only holiday we have left where people open their doors to strangers," says Lesley Pratt Bannatyne, author of Halloween: An American Holiday, an American History. "It's a holiday for kids, and there is no reason to take it away from them...
...strange exception. Last week ROBERT ALTMAN, director of the satires MASH, The Player and Dr. T and the Women, almost offered a mea culpa. "The movies set the pattern, and [the terrorists] have copied the movies," he said. "Nobody would have thought to commit an atrocity like that unless they'd seen it in a movie." That self-flagellation comes on the heels of remarks by JFK director OLIVER STONE in which he called the attacks a "revolt" against "order" of the sort created by show-biz conglomerates that "have control of the world." Historical first: auteurs with low self...
...final bill. House Republicans pushed hard to find a majority for the more stringent bill, but finally told the President they didn?t have the votes, and accepted the altered wording. One of the most significant changes: a clause that terminates the government?s wire-tapping powers in 2005 unless Congress approves them again...