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Lights! Camera! Action! Let the bombing begin
In what is easily the most advertised war in the history of mankind, the United States has all the guns and planes -- and lights and cameras -- in place for a military action against Iraq, notwithstanding the last ditch sortie by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to Baghdad to avert a face-off. Military manuals recommend stealth and surprise in action. But this a different shooting game.
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The coup proof dictator
Saddam Hussein doesn't take chances. Two weeks ago when the US first threatened to rain bombs on Baghdad, he moved the young thugs of the Amn al`rais, the presidential security force that always accompanies him, out of their barracks and into quarters in private homes. Cruise missiles and stealth bombers may flatten his military installations, but he is determined that when the bombing stops, his personal bodyguard should crawl out of the ruins to protect him.
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The Kremlin is haunted
As Russia prepares to finally bury the remains of its last Tsar Nicholas II (Alexander Romanov) and his family, Russian press has recently featured reports about the ghosts and spirits with which not only the Kremlin, but many other buildings and churches are haunted in Moscow. They generally relate to the ghosts of Tsars and many Bolshevik leaders, such as, Lenin, Stalin and his dreaded secret police chief Lavrenty Beria, and Red Army's famous commander Mikhail Frunze.
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Match-making "Uncleji" becomes the suitable groom
Dhanik Lal Mandal, 66, former Governor of Haryana, smiles. He's seen reports in some newspapers about his wedding on Valentine's Day. "The reporters want to add some spice to their stories. It was two days before the Lovers' Day," he says. At a quiet ceremony at the Tis Hazari Court in the capital, Mandal married 36-year-old Supreme Court advocate Kusum Choudhury. Her marriage, Kusum says, was "compelled by circumstances."
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