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iPhone 4S vs. a Princess phone with an extra-long cord
Opinion L.A.The Apple iPhone 4S news conference has some of us feeling the passage of time a bit more.... -
Israelis seize boats carrying supplies to Gaza Strip
World NowIsraeli blockade of Gaza Strip: Israel’s navy intercepted a pro-Palestinian protest flotilla Friday as it attempted to break a sea blockade around the Gaza Strip. Israeli officials said the takeover of two boats carrying 27 people occurred without... -
Richard Morefield dies at 81; diplomat was seized in Iran hostage crisis
Richard Morefield, a former career diplomat who was the U.S. consul general in Tehran in 1979 when the American Embassy was seized by Iranian militants and he and 51 other Americans were held hostage for 444 days, has died. He was 81.
Morefield, a...Tags: Iran, Television, San Francisco, University of California, Berkeley, U.S. Embassy
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Time to tell Pakistan: Game over
The search for Osama bin Laden lasted more than 10 years, through three U.S. presidencies. Under President Bill Clinton in the mid-1990s, our intelligence agencies began their relentless pursuit of bin Laden. The death of almost 3,000 innocent men,...Tags: Habeas Corpus, Washington, DC, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Death of Osama bin Laden (2011)
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Airports: Are we any safer?
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterOn May 1, 1961, Inez Harlow flew into the history books. The 23-year-old flight attendant had been suspicious of the slim passenger from the moment he boarded the National Airlines Convair CV-440 in Miami. "He had dark glasses on, his collar up,...Tags: Rome (Italy), Medical Procedures and Tests, Crimes, Bombings, Defense
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Former Secretary of State Warren Christopher Dies at 85
KTLA NewsLOS ANGELES (KTLA) -- Former Secretary of State Warren Christopher died in his home late Friday night of complications from bladder and kidney cancer. He was 85. Christopher was applauded for his efforts to promote peace in the Middle East by urging a...Tags: Bladder, Stanford University, Unrest, Conflicts and War, George W. Bush, University of Southern California
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Yelena Bonner dies at 88; wife of Andrei Sakharov was a Soviet human rights activist
Reporting from Moscow -- Yelena Bonner, human rights activist and widow of Soviet dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov, has died. She was 88.
Bonner died Saturday afternoon in Boston after a long illness, said her daughter, Tatiana...Tags: Human Interest, Activism, Health and Medical Professionals, Domodedovo Airport Bombing (2011), Civil Rights
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Egypt's Post-revolution Celebration Continues, Political Planning Begins
Los Angeles TimesCAIRO -- Egyptians carried their party into a second day as they sang, danced and cheered in ecstasy over the fall of former President Hosni Mubarak. Even as people rejoiced, the Egyptian army took steps to reassure the world of an orderly transition,...Tags: Human Interest, Los Angeles Times, Unrest, Conflicts and War, National Government, Hosni Mubarak
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U.S. aid only to countries supporting human rights
How should we react to the “Arab Spring”? President Barack Obama's May 19 Mideast policy speech outlined the key issues well. Despite the unnecessary distraction of his proposal to set the 1967 borders of Israel as the starting point of a future peace...Tags: Human Interest, Christianity, Unrest, Conflicts and War, National Government, Tunisia
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'Against All Enemies': A Tom Clancy summer
Jacket CopyThe big news for the Tom Clancy brotherhood was the return of the Jack Ryans, father and son, last December in "Dead or Alive" -- until then, the Ryan saga hadn’t made an appearance since 2003’s "The Teeth of the...... -
Doyle McManus: Middle East hopes and fears
We may be the world's only remaining superpower, but we've been a secondary factor in the wave of change sweeping the Arab world.
Tunisia held its revolution without American help, unless you count Facebook and Twitter. In Egypt, President Obama probably...Tags: Arts and Culture, Muammar Gaddafi, Israel, Economic Sanctions, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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U.S. should not be Israel's lackey
The recent article on President Obama's interactions with Israel ("Obama sticks to Mideast vision, seeks to calm Israel," May 22) demonstrates how flawed U.S. foreign policy is because of our politicians are always pandering to Israel and its powerful...Tags: Israel, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Barack Obama, Peace Negotiations, Defense
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