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...frequency but never explained why. The Army pilots said they had kept to a single frequency until five days after the shoot-down, when a revamped Air Force tasking order finally told them to change to a second frequency when entering Iraq. "I'm furious about it," says Chief Warrant Officer Ken Holden, who spent eight months over Iraq. "The Air Force set the stage for this accident to occur...
Then on June 16 came the Bosnian army's apparent bid to break the iron ring of Serb artillery that has encircled the city for more than three years. The first reports were of success, and elation overtook even those whose experience seemed to warrant it least. "Victory is ours!" exclaimed Mehmet Gluhic, a worker at Sarajevo's morgue, who tended to 28 bodies the day the offensive started and to 12 the next day. "There will be as many victims as God wishes, but we have proved that we are capable of breaking the resistance of our enemies...
That's defensible. Life is full of tough trade-offs between ease and safety, and we have to draw the lines somewhere. But do these trade-offs of convenience really warrant more reverence than trade-offs of civil liberty? If saving a few hundred lives-including children's lives-wouldn't justify a loss in highway efficiency, does it really justify growth of the government's power to eavesdrop and otherwise intrude on our lives...
Little chance, that is, until Lopez's court-appointed defense attorney decided that his client's case was hopeless enough to warrant a bold gamble. In a move that is about the closest an attorney ever gets to throwing a Hail Mary pass in the final two seconds of the Super Bowl, Jack Carter conceded that Lopez had indeed broken the law-and then went on to argue that the law itself was wrong. Thirty-seven months and two appeals later, the obscure public defender persuaded five Supreme Court Justices to overturn a law that several hundred legislators...
Chilgren was being held for disorderly conduct, but the Drug Enforcement Administration had a warrant out for Shimek on conspiracy to manufacture and produce marijuana...