Critics misread Bush and Clark on post 9 11 strategy
In a guest editorial The Omaha World Herald notes Gen Wesley Clark praised the restrained U S response to Sept 11 saying it was deliberate small slow cautious and supportive of locals. Analysts cite precision bombing limited civilian casualties and a balance between overreaction and inaction by Bush Cheney Rumsfeld Rice Powell as effective.
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Wesley Clark
NATO
United States
Osama bin Laden
bin Laden
Clark
U.S
FBI
al-Qaida
Hague
Eliot Cohen
Johns Hopkins University
Bush
Richard Cheney
Donald Rumsfeld
Condoleezza Rice
Colin Powell
Omaha World-Herald
Roswell Alarm Registration Law Criticized as Double Taxation
A reader supports Jim Fleming’s December 17 letter and condemns Roswell’s new alarm registration law as double taxation. The writer questions who defines false alarms, argues alarms deter crime, and urges the City Council to rescind the measure.
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Jim Fleming
Roswell
Jan 2 History Highlights From Open Door to Niagara Pact
On January 2 paled events shaped trade policy and statehood. John Hay announced the Open Door Policy in 1900. In 1788 Georgia ratified the Constitution. In 1929 the U S and Canada reached a Niagara Falls preservation accord. The 2002 calendar marks the second day of the year with 363 days remaining.
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Associated Press
John Hay
China
Spain
Ferdinand II
Isabella I
Georgia
U.S
United States
Canada
Niagara Falls
Local craftsman teaches weaving shuttle use to elementary students
Shelby Adams, president of the Fibre Craft Guild, demonstrated weaving with a shuttle to Missouri Avenue Elementary pupils Clifford McDonald Trina Allman and Angela Smith. Parents listed include Milton McDonald, Robert Allman and Jerry Wilson. Virginia Fritts, ENMU student, named to Who's Who 1967-77. Navy recruit Curtis Arnott, 18, completed training at San Diego’s Naval Training Center. son of James and Mrs Arnott.
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Shelby Adams
Missouri Avenue
Clifford McDonald
Trina Allman
Angela Smith
Adams
Fibre Craft Guild
Milton McDonald
Robert Allman
Jerry Wilson
Virginia Fritts
Eastern New Mexico University
James Fritts
Futura Drive
Navy
Curtis Arnott
James Arnott
Encanto Drive
Naval Training Center
San Diego
Calif
Once Enemies Now Friends Reveals Two WWII Veterans
Ex enemies Chuck Miles and Felix Pfaeffle tell how teen soldiers from opposite sides met in Las Cruces and Midwest towns, later coauthoring Once Enemies Now Friends with Eichstaedt. The book blends frontline memory and civilian snapshots from three German villages.
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Santa FE
Chuck Miles
Las Cruces
New Mexico
Miles
University of Texas-El Paso
Donna Eichstaedt
Felix Pfaeffle
Pfaeffle
Germany
Eichstaedt
Red Sky Publishing
Luftwaffe
Heidelberg
America
El Al Security Compared to Western Airline Guards
The author praises El Al's rigorous passenger interrogation and armed guard escort, noting El Al's low hijacking history and Interpol checks. They contrast with Western security, criticizing noncitizen staff, lack of training, and complacency in screening potential threats.
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el al
Interpol
United States
West
U.S
Byrd flexes power in Senate over terrorism and trade
The 84-year-old West Virginia Democrat Robert Byrd drives Senate action on anti terrorism funding and overseas policy while slowing major trade legislation. He wields history and procedure to check the Bush administration and guide federal spending through the Appropriations Committee.
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Washington
U.S
Robert Byrd
West Virginia
Bush
Byrd
Tom Daschle
D-S.d
Senate
Bobby Byrd
Sen
Judd Gregg
N.H
Appropriations Committee
Gregg
George Mitchell
Maine
Senate Appropriations Committee
Daschle
Congress
Strom Thurmond
South Carolina
White House
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