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Issues are presented concerning the violence in Palestine which is escalating despite the efforts of Yasir Arafat, Ehud Barak, Hosni Mubarak and Bill Clinton to find a peaceful solution to the conflict.

This article describes the possible factors that brought about the airplane crash that killed John F. Kennedy, Jr., his wife, and sister-in-law. These factors include unfortunate timing, Kennedy's inexperience as a pilot, bad weather, and bad luck.

Exclusive: How the CIA's secret war in Iraq turned into utter fiasco. In the long and checkered history of the CIA's attempts to overthrow foreign governments, there is almost always [...]

The strange case of Lieutenant Flinn is over, but in the military the war over women goes on. MINOT, N.D., IS A FLAT and lonely place. There's not much there, [...]

It wasn't just the Lincoln Bedroom. The cash-hungry Democrats may have peddled access to the National Security Council--and used the CIA to help. ROGER TAMRAZ WAS A MAN WITH a [...]

LAST YEAR A SMALL, UNDERFUNDED army office on the Pentagon's second floor scraped together 8150,000 and hired some actors to make a training film on sexual harassment. One part of [...]

LT. (J.G.) CAREY LOHRENZ WANTED to fit in. She was willing to put up with the loutish behavior of her fellow pilots, the misogynist jokes and the male strutting. She [...]

THE NAVY HAS NOT fought a real sea battle in over 50 years, and it has not lost an admiral in combat since 1944. But this past year, it lost [...]

Highlights the downing and rescue of Captain Scott O'Grady, who was shot down over Bosnia and saved by a group of young Marines. The celebration of the rescue by President Bill Clinton and others; O'Grady's humility in the face of the groundswell of support; The Air Force's 17-day survival course at Fairchild Air Base, and what O'Grady had been taught there. INSETS: Rescue behind enemy lines (chronololgy);The gear that helped save him (survival kits).

Senator Bob Kerrey's hands trembled slightly as he began to read six pages of documents that had just been handed to him. It was late 1998; the papers were nearly [...]

Okinawa's Pyramid Club on a Friday night pulsates. The disco is known among the U.S. soldiers for its late-night dancing and not-so- occasional brawls. Sweaty American GIs hip-hop underneath flashing [...]

The briefing was over and Maj. Gen. Claudia Kennedy, one of the highest-ranking women in the U.S. Army, extended her hand to Brig. Gen. Larry Smith. Kennedy and Smith were [...]

It was around 8 p.m. on a clear Arizona night when two odd-looking military aircraft swooped in low over a small desert airfield. Crammed inside the bellies of the MV-22 [...]

Reggie was tall and blond, a natural athlete and an expert marksman who was fluent in five languages. Billy was dark-haired and wiry, a standout soldier who had been decorated [...]

A little after 7 p.m. Eastern standard time on Jan. 24, nearly half the computing power in the world went dead. The top secret National Security Agency's massive array of [...]

South Korean villagers from the town of No Gun Ri have alleged for years that on July 26, 1950, early in the Korean War, American soldiers massacred hundreds of civilians [...]

Bob Manning, a longtime Asia hand in Washington, noticed the difference immediately. There was a tougher mind-set, a harder undertone in the voices of Japanese Diet members and intellectuals who [...]

For the Serbs, it was a trophy of war. Late last March CNN cameras showed Serbian women dancing on the wing of an American warplane smoldering on the ground near [...]

It was shaping up to be just another tedious day in the hearing room. Late last fall the Cox Committee investigation seemed at a dead end. For months the House [...]

Covert action is seductive to policymakers in a bind. When diplomacy fails and force falls short, presidents often turn to the CIA for secret solutions to vexing problems. Unable to [...]

Considers the January 1999 conjunction of Iraqi antiaircraft fire at patrolling American and British warplanes, terrorist action against British and American tourists in Yemen, and a threat of terrorism against the United States embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel. Suggestion of a terrorism conspiracy between Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and Saudi terrorist Osama Bin Laden; What is known about Saddam's strategy; Reasons for challenging the no-fly zones. INSET: A New Mideast Axis?.

Reports on the efforts of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency to stop the terrorism of Osama bin Laden. The Counter Terrorism Center team following the international network of Saudi exile bin Laden, who is suspected of financing the bombings of US embassies in August 1998; New York Federal prosecutors charging four men linked to bin Laden with conspiracy to kill American citizens; Background on bin Laden and his terrorist activity. INSET: Tools of the Trade.

Discusses the June 1998 Cable News Network (CNN)-`Time' Magazine handling of a story about use of sarin gas by United States operatives in Laos during the Vietnam War. Repudiation of the `NewsStand: CNN & Time' program produced by April Oliver about Operation Tailwind's elimination of US defectors; What went wrong with the nerve-gas report; Statistics of public opinion of the press; Pressures on reporters; Pentagon response to the story. INSETS: A Newsweek poll: The media's credibility gap;Going too far?.

Focuses on the response of the French to United States President Bill Clinton's March 1998 trip to Sub-Saharan Africa. Expansion of US influence in the region; French fears of loss of influence; French history in Africa; Identification of US interests; Comparison of US and French approaches to the region.

The headlines concerning the role of the UNSCOM team to spy on Iraq was denied by the Clinton administration and the UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. The US admitted using sophisticated listening devices to assist UNSCOM, but it did not work with anyone in the team to collect information to undermine the Iraqi regime. However, reports since the 'Desert Fox' strikes suggest that UNSCOM materials were passed on by the CIA to Pentagon that helped pinpoint targets in Iraq.

An air force nominee gets caught in a cultural dogfight DARYL JONES IS A HIGH FLIER. valedictorian of his high school, he graduated from the Air Force Academy to become [...]

They were outsiders on their way up--until they crossed swords Robert Davis, A black man, and Katharine Laughton, a white woman, loved the U.S. Navy. One of 10 children in [...]

The mission control center outside Moscow looks straight out of central casting: five rows of earnest controllers peering intently at their monitors; a video screen showing the crew of the [...]

The army's top enlisted man is buffeted by charges of sexual harassment GENE MCKINNEY, THE SERGEANT major of the U.S. Army, is the most senior of the army's 410,000 enlisted [...]

How Saddam foiled the CIA's ambitious effort to drive him from power. BY CHRISTOPHER DICKEY AND GREGORY L. VISTICA REMINDERS OF SADDAM HUSSEIN'S RUTHLESS efficiency in crushing those who would [...]

The 1992 cheating scandal that implicated 133 of their mates. The 1995 drug bust that caught 24 would-be officers. The stolen-car ring indicted this month, the midshipman just arrested for [...]

Dick Holm's cold war is written on his face. His eyebrows are permanently singed, and waxen skin-grafts mottle his cheeks. His ears have been melted into the sides of his [...]

THE ARMY KNEW IT WAS IN TROUble even before Sam Donaldson arrived. Last December three enlisted men in the 82d Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, N.C., drove to nearby Fayetteville [...]

The explosion came only minutes before the midday call to prayer. The designer shops along Thirty Street, Riyadh's answer to Rodeo Drive, were preparing to close their doors, and American [...]

Louis Freeh could hardly believe his ears. In the summer of 1997 the FBI director called a secret meeting to discuss a problem that was just coming to his attention: [...]

Weeks after reports that Wen Ho Lee, a Chinese-American scientist at Los Alamos, may have leaked secret nuclear-weapons designs to Beijing in 1988, some in the U.S. intelligence community are [...]

A former CIA chief is investigated for a casual approach to secret data Bill Richardson was in a bind. When allegations emerged last month that China had penetrated the nation's [...]

To CIA operatives in the Balkans, the plan seemed credible, but they wanted their bosses to hear the details firsthand. So in the early 1990s the agency secretly brought the [...]

During the Bosnian war, Gen. Wesley Clark was among a group of U.S. officials forced to drive a dangerous mountain road outside Sarajevo because the Bosnian Serbs refused to guarantee [...]

The news was worse than the CIA had imagined. Last week, in response to recent reports that China may have stolen nuclear secrets from Los Alamos and other U.S. weapons [...]

The Navy tries to bulk up its thinning ranks Lt. cmdr. milan pastuovic knew he was in trouble four years ago, when he tipped the bathroom scale at 255 pounds. [...]

A scandal over spying in Iraq tests Washington and the United Nations. Madeleine Albright read the headline with pure incredulity. annan suspicious of unscom role, The Washington Post blared on [...]