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Most voters did not question the President's intentions, only his competence. They gave him an "A" for effort but an "F" for execution. Said former Reagan Aide Lyn Nofziger: "Some will say at least he tried. But others feel that if we didn't know already he...
As the trials continued, the leader of the coup, Master Sergeant Samuel Kanyon Doe, 28, was settling in as head of state. Each day began with a flurry of announcements. He decreed, for example, that all members of the national football team would go on the government payroll, and that...
I was a prisoner of the Japanese in the Philippines, as was Mrs. Crouter, but after reading the article about her I wonder if we were in different wars, held by different captors. As a three-year-old, I suffered from kwashiorkor, a severe protein deficiency; this was not helped...
British viewers watched their television screens, transfixed. First came the sound of gunshots, and a woman shrouded in black crumpled to the ground. Then a djellaba-clad executioner raised his gleaming sword for the beheading, and a kneeling figure in white was suddenly red with blood. The scene, from a film titled Death of a Princess, re-enacted the double execution in 1977 of a married Saudi Princess, Mashall, 19, and her unmarried commoner lover for having committed adultery. Witnessed by hundreds in a parking lot in Jeddah, the executions were in accordance with the laws of the Koran. Shown...
I took the position that, in a hypothetical case in which the target had been the direct cause of the identification and execution of one of our agents abroad, halfway measures were not appropriate. I urged as the logical and just solution that the target be killed. Quickly.