Author: DXO
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[JJ Letters] Censorship or anarchy?
September 17, 1993 Fiore Mastracci spews forth the same old pietistic put-down of people that his kind disagrees with (Feedback, Sept. 10). This time, the target is protester Colleen Cooper of Clairton, who objects to “NYPD Blue” being shown in prime time on WTAE-TV, “without even seeing it,” as he sneers so self-righteously. He further…
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[JJ Letters] Road deaths have dropped
March 24, 1993 Your story on traffic fine revenues in Kilbuck on Route 65 overlooked one very vital point. You reported on the large amount of money raised through the fines, the “aggressive” police officers, the West Penn AAA and its involvement, the sour grapes from the culprits who were caught speeding and other complaints…
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In the General’s Black Hawk, Flying Over a Divided Iraq
January 11, 2004 By JOHN F. BURNS ABU SAIDA, Iraq, Jan. 9 — Aboard a Black Hawk helicopter skimming nose down at 50 feet across a landscape of palm groves and semidesert north of Baghdad, Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez gazed out at lone shepherds and donkey carts and villagers staring back at the airborne…
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INSURGENTS: Iraqis Shell Living Quarters at U.S. Base, Wounding 35
January 8, 2004 By JOHN F. BURNS BAGHDAD, Iraq, Thursday, Jan. 8 — Insurgents fired six mortar rounds late Wednesday at a United States military camp about 50 miles northwest of Baghdad, wounding 35 soldiers in an area used for living quarters, the military announced at midnight. It said the soldiers had been given first…
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THE MILITARY: In Hussein’s Shadow, New Iraqi Army Strives to Be Both New and Iraqi
January 7, 2004 By JOHN F. BURNS AJI, Iraq, Jan. 6 — If moments in the new Iraq strain credulity for those who knew the country under Saddam Hussein, few have done so more than the scene on Tuesday at this old Iraqi barracks: recruits of the new Iraqi Army marched across the parade square,…