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...Congress, the chief Iraqi opposition group, says that during a televised procession at Baghdad's military parade ground last year, new missiles were displayed, including ones that appeared to violate the U.N. ban on long-range missiles that is meant to prevent Iraq from threatening Europe. A chemical weapons unit marched with the missiles that day. As it passed Saddam's reviewing stand, he became noticeably excited, firing several shots into the air. Perhaps the rest of the world should consider those fair warning...
...fire. Harazi, who had been protected from the blast by a pillar, was unhurt and ran to Yoel just as another bomb was thrown through a window. Shrapnel wounded Harazi in the legs and face, but he got out and ran 50 yds. back to the medic unit. "Eyal is lying in there burning!" he shouted to the medics. "There are a lot of others you need to rescue." But nine men caught in the initial ambush died, as did Yoel and three others of their would-be rescuers. A few hours later, a Golani Brigade soldier was shot...
...light on the role senior officers played in orchestrating the violence. Another case in point: the murder of Papuan independence leader Theys Eluay, found strangled to death in Papua's capital of Jayapura last November. A special inquiry pinned the murder on members of the notorious Elite army unit Kopassus, who, according to one senior military officer, "killed Theys without any order from their superiors"?those few bad apples again. But not many people outside military circles believe Theys' killers acted alone, or that any senior officers will ever come to trial for giving them orders. Says prominent human rights...
...nuclear submarine before he joined Michelin in 1989. Like all company executives, he spent six months on an assembly line before becoming part of the management team. In 1991, following Michelin's acquisition of the American tire company Uniroyal-Goodrich, he was named ceo of Michelin's U.S. unit. He returned to the company's Clermont-Ferrand headquarters in 1993 to prepare for the succession. Just months later Edouard faced media and political ire when, on the same day Michelin revealed a quarterly profit increase of 20%, it announced restructuring plans that would eliminate 7,500 European jobs. "Those painful...
There was Mager, batting 6-for-10 and stealing two bases. There was the infield of Mager, Shakir, third baseman Nick Carter and first baseman Josh San Salvador, an all-senior unit that had the best fielding percentage in the Ivy League, erasing the few mistakes the Crimson’s starters made...