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...Space Center, where Columbia was due to land. In Spokane, Wash., neighbors of Anderson's parents thought maybe they were having a party Saturday morning, a day to celebrate their son's second space adventure, but then it was the pastor coming and a neighbor with groceries because the truth was on TV. The countdown clock in Florida had started counting back up, when the landing time had passed and the shuttle had not arrived. People watching in eastern Texas heard a crushing rumble outside, the dogs whined, and horses started, and a poisonous rain of broken shuttle pieces fell...
...discomforting truth is that Allied leaders strode unhesitantly into the atomic age. "I regarded the bomb as a military weapon and never had any doubt that it should be used," Truman later wrote. "[N]or did I ever hear the slightest suggestion that we should do otherwise," Winston Churchill added. Nothing in the record contradicts them. Dropping the Bomb on Aug. 6, 1945, was among history's most notorious foregone conclusions...
...Snoop Speaks In TIME's interview with CIA director Porter Goss [June 27], you asked him, "Could the U.S. go to war again based on false intelligence?" Goss disingenuously replied that he "would not agree to surmise" that we did so. Why can't Administration officials simply speak the truth about our invasion of Iraq? The indisputable fact is that President Bush justified the attack on Iraq based on intelligence that proved to be wrong. Gilbert H. Vieira Colfax, California, U.S. With a wry smile, I read the interview with Goss. If, as he claims, he knows where Osama...
...reason is that Osama bin Laden's "achievements" in standing up to the American colossus on 9/11 have inspired others to follow his lead. Another is that American actions--above all, the invasion and occupation of Iraq--have galvanized still more Muslims and convinced them of the truth of bin Laden's vision...
...Speaks In TIME's interview with CIA director Porter Goss [June 27], you asked him, "Could the U.S. go to war again based on false intelligence?" Goss disingenuously replied that he "would not agree to surmise" that we did so. Why can't U.S. Administration officials simply speak the truth about our invasion of Iraq? The indisputable fact is that President George W. Bush justified the attack on Iraq based on intelligence that proved to be wrong. Gilbert H. Vieira Colfax, California...