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...permit Russian troops to participate in the Kosovo peacekeeping forces. Though initial details were sketchy, Secretary of Defense William Cohen said the agreement "preserves the unity of command necessary to make KFOR an effective military force and gives Russia a unique role by providing for operations of Russian forces within KFOR sectors run by the United States, France and Germany." Russian troops will serve under Russian command and control but they will work with NATO commanders in those sectors. And, of course, they'll free up the runways at Pristina Airport...
BABE RUTH In sports' first golden age, there was Babe Ruth--and then there was everyone else. In 1920, only his second season as an everyday player, he hit 54 home runs--more than any entire team in the American League. Within a few years, his assault on distant fences had bent baseball into a new and thrilling shape. His appetites were as prodigious as his home runs, his affinity for the crowd and the camera seemingly part of his dna. By the time he retired in 1935, Ruth had become, in the words of sportswriter Jimmy Cannon, "a national...
JESSE OWENS For one brief moment, he was white America's first black athletic hero, his four gold medals (and three world records) at the 1936 Berlin Olympics both a garland of honor for the U.S. and a mortification to Hitler. Within months, though, even with medals on his bureau and his degree from Ohio State in one of its drawers, he was able to support himself only by racing against horses as a sort of sideshow at Negro League baseball games. To TIME, he was variously the "coffee-colored" Owens, "the world's fastest blackamoor" or "the dusky speedster...
...bullets actually entered his brain. It was Nov. 27, 1978, in city hall, and Mayor George Moscone was also killed. Fellow supervisor Daniel White, a troubled anti-gay conservative, had left the board, and he became unhinged when Moscone denied his request to return. White admitted the murders within hours...
...Prince and the twice-married American met in 1931, and within four years, the rest was rapidly becoming history. Their romance shook the British Empire, rocked the Church of England, changed the succession and foretold the dissolution of the power of royalty. He made a radio broadcast, one of the most famous public declarations of love in history: "I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love...