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After being delayed for two days by snow and bad weather, the nuclear exodus from Kazakhstan finally began late on the afternoon of Nov. 20, when the first of two C-5s ferrying the nuclear material lifted off. Their flights home were nonstop, made possible by extra pilots aboard and aerial refuelings over the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean. "As soon as the wheels left the ground," said Navy Commander Paul Shaffer, the top military man on the mission, "everyone was cheering and clapping." More than 20 hours later, they landed at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, where...
While the prospect of nonstop hearings promises to make life miserable at the State Department, senior Clinton officials are not visibly troubled by Helms yet. In a pep talk to his top aides, Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott pointed out that Presidents retain huge advantages in managing foreign affairs because they can do so much without congressional approval. He added that November exit polls showed foreign policy does not much concern voters at the moment; voters seem to want more continuity with the past in foreign policy, not less...
Texas floods provide nonstop photo op for Governor in tight race...
...Disney, Katzenberg had said he would "take a 60-day pit stop ... to rest and recharge." But for this mighty mover, whose relentless vim is both a legend and a curse, two months of R. and R. would be cruel and unusual punishment -- like having to watch Cabin Boy nonstop for a year. Geffen says Katzenberg called him "the day it hit the fan at Disney," and floated the idea of a partnership with him and Spielberg. "It started with 'Wouldn't it be great?"' says Geffen, "but it became real very quickly...
There's never silence when Tarantino is in the room. This engaging, nonstop performer -- named by his half-Cherokee mother for the hero of Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury as well as for the half-breed (Quint) played by Burt Reynolds in Gunsmoke -- was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and moved to Southern California when he was two. Since then, it's been a movie-mad life. His folks took him to all sorts of films, then he went on his own. He seems to have remembered -- and understood -- everything he's seen. "He's probably the best video...