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Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley (above, center) congratulates the Democratic Party's presidential nominee, Vice President Hubert J. Humphrey, at the 1968 convention. At right, Chicago police use nightsticks and tear gas to break up protests at the '68 convention.
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In this Aug. 19, 2005, file photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin sits in the cockpit of a supersonic strategic bomber leaving for a training mission, in Moscow.
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A horse driven cart moves past a Russian soldier at a checkpoint in Khurvaleti, near Gori, Georgia, Monday, Aug. 18, 2008. Russian troops and tanks control a wide swath of Georgia, including the country's main east-west highway. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has promised the withdrawal under terms of an EU-backed cease-fire agreement, but how quickly the troops will leave is unclear, as is exactly where they will redeploy. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)
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Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili speaks during a security council meeting in Tbilisi on Saturday, Aug. 9, 2008. (AP Photo/Irakli Gedenidze, Pool)
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* *FILE ** Bruce E. Ivins was the architect of the 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people, the FBI has determined.
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Security guard Richard Jewell poses on Sunday, July 28, 1996, across from the tower where he found a bomb and warned visitors at Centennial Olympic Park early Saturday morning. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution had named Jewell as a suspect in the bombing. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, William Berr) ** FILE **
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**FILE** The United Nations headquarters in New York
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A B-52 bomber, like this one at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, crashed off Guam, killing at least two people, the Air Force reported. (Associated Press)
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Fort Monroe in Hampton, Va., the last active fort in the country with a moat, was a mecca for fugitive slaves during the Civil War, and historians want to honor its role when the Army returns it to Virginia's control. (Associated Press)
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Gen. Michael V. Hayden was feted Friday at his military-retirement ceremony at Bolling Air Force Base. He will continue to serve as the civilian director of the CIA.
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**FILE** Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony (left) and a deputy, Vincent Otti, meet with a U.N. official in Ri-Kwangba, Sudan, in 2006.
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Astrid Riecken/The Washington Times An armed guard guides visitors to the school Tuesday while monitoring the Islamic Saudi Academy grounds.
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** FILE ** NATO-led French troops move to take up positions during exercises at the border between Kosovo and Serbia in 2008. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Colombian refugees wait for aid in the tiny border town of Puerto Nuevo, Ecuador, after fleeing their country to escape a drug-fueled civil war. (Kelly Hearn/The Washington Times)
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Ulysses S. Grant is the most successful general of the Civil War, leading brilliant battles and campaigns on a national scale.
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Sinodefence.com China is developing warheads for its new JL-2 submarine-launched ballistic missile for use in anti-satellite weapons.
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Associated Press Garry Kasparov, former chess champion and Russian opposition leader, was at the helm of a movement of people who refused to vote in Sunday's elections.
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Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, answers journalists' questions Nov. 12 at Ri-Kwamba in Southern Sudan following a meeting with U.N. humanitarian chief Jan Egeland.
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Juma Gul, the Afghan boy who says militants tried to trick him into executing a suicide attack against U.S. soldiers, sits atop a table surrounded by tribal elders as his story was retold. A U.S. Army officer called the Taliban's tactic "a cowardly act," and Afghan elders clicked their tongues as their eyes welled up with tears.
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Then-Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, New York Democrat, was booed over the war in Iraq by attendees at the Take Back America conference in Washington when she praised the troops. (Rodney Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
