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...authorities are trying to strike back. Last Tuesday, just after midnight, 20,000 soldiers and police in camouflage gear swept through several dozen Moscow hotels, businesses and banks, hoping to cripple the criminal gangs. In the meantime, citizens are afraid to go out at night; stores have difficulty keeping pistols, Mace and bulletproof jackets in stock; dinner conversations stop abruptly whenever a tail pipe backfires in the streets. "The crime problem today knows no limits," says Pavel Gusev, editor in chief of Moskovsky Komsomolets, who travels with a bodyguard. "In the U.S. your Mafia has already divided up spheres...
Dressed in riot gear, the police officersbarreled through groups of students that hadsurrounded the building...
Fourteen hours after the protesters escorted the administrators out of the building, the president called in a police force of about 100 officers from local suburbs. They arrived at about 4 a.m., armed with riot gear and ready to use force...
...craft called Higgins boats churned toward shore. The weather had cleared, as predicted, but the wind still kicked up heavy waves that made most of the troops violently seasick. As the coastline appeared in the gray, misty light, the soldiers, each laden with almost 70 lbs. of wet battle gear, jumped neck-deep into the waves and scrambled ashore...
...sight of France was the smoke, then the fires on the beach. There was so much happening: shells whistling in, buildings burning, aircraft overhead, Jerry letting go with 88-mm guns. We all grabbed our bicycles, and I remember the water under my chin. I had 78 lbs. of gear, not counting the bike and steel helmet. There were bodies in the water, and bodies lined up under blankets on the shore...