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...police in the northeastern city of Metz discovered 100 g of explosives on a chartered Royal Air Maroc plane, raising fears the material was planted for use in a terror attack. The wad of plastic explosives - similar to that carried by alleged shoe-bomber Richard Reid - had been wedged beneath an armrest with no detonation device attached. It was found by sniffer dogs during a random inspection of the flight from Marrakesh, Morocco. French antiterror officials said the find may have thwarted a two-step plot, in which one operative planted the bombing material for an accomplice to outfit with...
...there was any doubt that the audience at the silent auction was predominantly female, the proliferation of signatures beneath the WUSA’s Boston Breakers autographed jersey compared to the blank sheet for the minimal bid of $200 for an autographed Doug Flutie B.C. jersey would have served notice...
...square, was one of the last activists at-large. He was being sheltered by friends and relatives in his native Heilongjiang province. But the Public Security Bureau was determined to smoke out the remaining rebels, and Zhang's arrest was made a top priority. He hid in a cellar beneath an uncle's home, then fled for the Soviet border. Later, he heard that a furious official had given a tacit shoot-to-kill order to be rid of him. Zhang dubs those days "the red terror," and claims that across China house-to-house searches, arbitrary detainments and death...
...sewers. The sprawling capital is marked by broad boulevards, labyrinthine alleys and 5 million people. Missile batteries surround the city, along with most of the 15,000-man elite Special Republican Guard. "If they come, we are ready," Saddam told a British newspaper last month, reportedly from a bunker beneath Baghdad. "We will fight them on the streets, from the rooftops, from house to house...
...group portrait Max Ernst painted of his Surrealist mates in 1922, Rendezvous Among Friends, shows all l7 of them then - as well as Renaissance master Raphael in a cameo appearance - posing in suits and ties beneath some peaks of the Tyrolean Alps. Writer-artist Breton poses in the middle with his arm upraised to show who's boss. It was Breton who cracked the whip, writing in 1928: "Beauty will be convulsive, or it will...