Today is Sunday, June 24, the 175th day of 2007. There are 190 days left in the year.
Todays highlight in history
On June 24, 1948, Communist forces cut off all land and water routes between West Germany and West Berlin, prompting the western allies to organize the massive Berlin Airlift.
North of Baghdad, in a warehouse converted into a detention center, George Driscoll stood in front of a man he considered a terrorist.
"What are you thinking right now?" Driscoll, a U.S. Navy reserve commander, asked the man through an interpreter.
"I'm wondering how I can get that pen out of your hand and drive it into your eye," the man replied.
Today is Sunday, June 24, the 175th day of 2007. There are 190 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On June 24, 1948, Communist forces cut off all land and water routes between West Germany and West Berlin, prompting the western allies to organize the massive Berlin Airlift.
Chris Tomlinson is winding up a seven-year stint in Nairobi, Kenya, as East Africa bureau chief for The Associated Press. It's been a rough ride, especially in recent months, with one staffer killed in an airplane crash in Cameroon and another wounded when a mortar hit his house in Mogadishu, Somalia.
Tomlinson, 42, a native of Dallas and a humanities graduate of the University of Texas, was in town recently to visit family and friends, and he plans on returning to write a book about Africa and terrorism.
Here is an edited account of his reflections on conditions in East Africa.
Today is Sunday, June 24, the 175th day of 2007. There are 190 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On June 24, 1948, Communist forces cut off all land and water routes between West Germany and West Berlin, prompting the western allies to organize the massive Berlin Airlift.
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