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...between the Gaza Strip and Egypt have also served as conduits for arms. Israeli troops found two such tunnels last week and destroyed them. Last May Israel intercepted a boat headed to the Gaza Strip and discovered a haul that included Strella shoulder-launched ground-to-air missiles--the Russian equivalent of the Stinger. In case other Strellas have got through before or since, Israel's air-force helicopters are under orders to fly with massive floodlights trailing behind them whenever they are over the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The lights glow at a temperature higher than that...
...CHECHNYA Towns Under Siege Russian forces blockaded Chechnya's third-largest city, Argun, for five days, shelling houses where rebels sought refuge. Still, a group of rebels slipped out of the tightly sealed city, and Russian troops continued operations in other Chechen villages and towns. Moscow claims to have killed 92 rebels in a month-long crackdown by security forces southeast of the capital Grozny...
CHECHNYA Fatal Clashes Emboldened by the international war on terrorism, Russian forces have increased their attacks on Chechen rebels. In a three-day battle close to the capital Grozny, Russian officials claimed that 84 rebels were killed. During the Russians' attempt to flush out insurgents from the mountainous area around Tsotsin-Yurt, the rebels countered that 40 soldiers died in fighting while they had lost only eight...
...between the Gaza Strip and Egypt have also served as conduits for arms. Israeli troops found two such tunnels last week and destroyed them. Last May Israel intercepted a boat headed to the Gaza Strip and discovered a haul that included Strella shoulder-launched ground-to-air missiles--the Russian equivalent of the Stinger. In case other Strellas have got through before or since, Israel's air-force helicopters are under orders to fly with massive floodlights trailing behind them whenever they are over the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The lights glow at a temperature higher than that...
...Warren was the composer Berlin most resembled in immigrant background (Warren was born in Brooklyn of Italian parents), natural melodic gift and lack of formal musical training. Most of the others - Kern, Rodgers, Hammerstein, Larry Hart - were of German Jewish stock from the educated middle-class; Berlin was a Russian Jewish immigrant, raised on the Lower East Side, quickly out of school and into the showbiz fringe as a singing waiter. Their music came from honing a natural talent with years of study; his songwriting gift was a freak of nature. No wonder he fretted that this knack would desert...