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SENTENCED. MIR AIMAL KANSI, 33, Pakistani terrorist who in 1993 ambushed CIA headquarters, killing two of its employees; to death; in Fairfax...
Besides telling it to the judge, Mir Amal Kansi, the Pakistani citizen sentenced to death Friday for the killing of two people in a 1993 attack on CIA headquarters, decided to tell it to the Net. Kansi broke his media silence by going online Friday to proclaim that his only regret is that he did not kill top CIA officials...
...MIR All America knows at least one Russian word, and it makes us chuckle. Is that...
...Most Troubled Craft The space station Mir, once the crown jewel of Russia's space program, fell on hard times this year as a string of mishaps threatened to shut the ship down for good. But Mir stayed aloft. And NASA, which has been sending U.S. astronauts to the station since 1995, plans to stand by its Russian partner...
...official: Yuri Baturin, Boris Yeltsin's bespectacled defense adviser, will take a spin for a week or so on Mir next year. The long-rumored trip is planned for August, during a crew changeover. Baturin, a former staff member at Energiya, the Russian space corporation that made Mir, has been secretly taking lessons in zero-G flight at Star City, the cosmonaut-training center outside Moscow. The competition to join him aloft promises to be stiff. Slovak, French and Indonesian astronauts, as well as a CNN correspondent, have already put in bids. Why would Baturin risk his life in space...