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After 241 American troops on a pointless mission in Beirut were killed by a suicide bomber in 1983, the Reagan Administration struggled to draw lessons from the disaster. The next year, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger offered a checklist for evaluating the future uses of military forces abroad. Such actions should be necessary to protect vital national interests, he advised, and permit the use of powerful force to achieve a decisive victory. The objective must be clear and attainable by military means, and it must be supported by Congress and the people...
...first-generation CIA reconnaissance satellites between 1960 and 1972, are being released because of their scientific value in environmental studies. Gore called the declassified photos "a gold mine of hitherto unavailable data." Four of the previously top-secret shots were unveiled today, showing a Soviet military air field, another bomber base with jets pictured, a Russian volcano and the Aral Sea. Many will be available on the Internet...
...first-generation CIA reconnaissance satellites between 1960 and 1972, are being released because of their scientific value in environmental studies. Gore called the declassified photos "a gold mine of hitherto unavailable data." Four of the previously top-secret shots were unveiled today, showing a Soviet military air field, another bomber base with jets pictured, a Russian volcano and the Aral Sea. Many will be available on the Internet...
...Israeli television watchers needed no explanation of what the bearded men were doing with paint scrapers and plastic bags at Beit Lid junction in central Israel. They were representatives of the rabbinate, scouring the decimated bus stop for bits of human flesh blasted apart last week by Palestinian suicide bombers. Under Jewish law, the entire body must be given a proper burial. Viewers had seen the same ghastly task performed when another kamikaze bomber eviscerated a Tel Aviv bus, killing 22, only three months earlier...
...narrative about the Japanese who suffered and died. Rep. Peter Blute (R-Mass.), one of the congressional critics, said the original exhibit amounted to "a politically correct diatribe on the nuclear age." The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., now will simply display the famous bomber's fuselage and show a video of its crew...