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...trying desperately to get family members out of Warsaw since 1937, he "believed in the war." Believed, that is, in halting the genocide he knew was taking place. But his book is not about that; it is about an 18-year-old kid's chilling terror and loneliness in combat and how that drove more abstract ideals out of his mind. "You got through because you didn't want to look bad to the guys around you," says Kotlowitz...
...drug problem. Interdiction can succeed only if it is accompanied by a far more vigorous effort to reduce demand in the U.S. and provide more treatment and rehabilitation programs for hard-core addicts. Demand drives supply, supply helps create more drug use, and interdiction is essential, not just to combat drug production but also to defend democratic institutions in Latin America. BERNARD ARONSON Washington...
...communities like a scythe, threatening to swallow a whole generation. But international policy is coalescing like never before: in a historic summit, more than 30 African heads of state gathered in Nigeria last month for an AIDS conference. African leadership must be the core of any strategy to combat the epidemic. Now, after tragic years lost, it seems that such leadership is beginning to emerge. At that meeting, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan called on the leaders to multiply their health budgets and take serious action, and he called on the developed world to donate $7 to 10 billion...
...enforcement also sapped strength from the movement. Some 20 states tightened laws against so-called common-law courts, through which disaffected citizens' groups had attempted to bypass federal authority over property and tax issues. At the same time the FBI was authorized to hire 500 new agents to combat domestic terrorism, and a number of Oklahoma City copycat plans were defused. In the past two years militia leaders have been jailed for plans to bomb power lines in Florida, federal buildings in Michigan and the Army base at Fort Hood in Texas...
...involved with antidrug missions, they are not, by law, allowed anywhere near counterinsurgency operations. Thus, for instance, the U.S. Blackhawks in Plan Colombia can be used to hit FARC drug operations but not other FARC offensives. It's a tough distinction to draw in the real-time world of combat...