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...when Haynes balked at their radical agenda, they browbeat her with vicious personal attacks until she eventually resigned. The activists didn't want gender equity. All they wanted was different faces mouthing the same ideas...
...Croats indicted for complicity in the vicious ethnic cleansing that took place in 1993 around Vitez in central Bosnia. The tribunal says that local civilians, including Skopljak, together with Bosnian Croat General Tihomir Blaskic, were in charge when Croats sacked the village of Ahmici, tossing grenades into cellars where villagers sought to hide. To dislodge holdouts in downtown Vitez, Croats filled a tanker truck with explosives, tied a Muslim to the steering wheel and propelled the vehicle into a block of houses, killing and maiming dozens...
...That vicious, exponential math exacts a human toll long after conflict ends. Still, the notion that the U.S. should forswear the use of mines is unpopular among many at the Pentagon. "There's no easy way to defend a perimeter without land mines," an Army officer says. "But it's just politically incorrect to support the use of land mines right now." The ability to block an enemy's retreat by quickly dropping mines from the air is another advantage that some officials are loath to relinquish. "Mine opponents say it's a matter of morality and not military utility...
...defenders fought off a Soviet onslaught in a town called Jaji, not far from the Pakistani border. To Arabs, it was one of the first demonstrations that the Russians could actually be beaten. A year later, bin Laden led an offensive against Soviet troops in the battle of Shaban. Vicious hand-to-hand fighting claimed heavy mujahedin casualties, but his men succeeded in pushing the Soviets out of the area...
Still, almost everyone found it hard to believe that any of the three could do anything so vicious. "This is what hurts me the most. They don't have an explanation,'' says the baby's father Ignacio. "What can you say about a child who is barely 30 days old? He can't do any harm to anyone." At week's end the battered infant was on life support in critical condition, his prognosis uncertain. His accused attackers were arraigned in juvenile court on charges of burglary; the six-year-old was also charged with attempted murder...