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...Hardly surprising, then, that Iraqi officials don't trust the U.S. military's screening process. "We know that the Americans have been misled by some of the sheiks," says Hadi al-Ameri, who heads the Iraqi parliament's security committee. In some cases, he says, the sheiks were simply providing false names in order to extract more money from the U.S. military. (Al-Ameri says there are only 57,000 legitimate SOI; the U.S. military says there are nearly twice that number.) In private, other Iraqi officials worry that some tribal leaders have taken money from both the Americans...
...Uncle Sam beard and striped top hat, sits in stockades wearing an "I am part Jewish" sign on its beak and a public notice (signed by Lindbergh), "This Bird is Possessed of an Evil Demon!" Once the U.S. finally entered the War, Geisel fired his heaviest artillery: the Ameri-bird confronting huge German and Japanese mosquitos with a canister labeled "U.S. Defense Bonds - Stamps" and the caption, "Quick, Henry, THE FLIT...
...Ameri-centrism of the Harvard campus--and of America in general--became startlingly evident to me when I first arrived at college from my home in Brussels, Belgium. Carrying my life across Harvard Yard in four small suitcases, I eagerly searched for students who had visited the city in which I grew up and who, by sharing their recollections with me, could assuage my pangs of home-sickness. Instead, I heard such questions as: "Do they speak Belgish in Belgium?," "Belgium borders Italy, right...
Along with the investment firm Morgan Stanley,which raised an $800 million "vulture" realtyfund, Lennar acquired the assets of Ameri-FirstBank, appraised at $900 million, for about halftheir actual value...
...Kennedy had not been assassinated, Oglesby said, escalation of the American military intervention in Vietnam might not have occurred. "We are drawn to think about [the assassinations] and study them because the one and a half million Vietnamese and the 58,000 Ameri- cans who died in Vietnam are also the victimsof the killers, whoever they were," he said. Hegave no evidence that Kennedy would not haveescalated the conflict in Vietnam...