Journal MonTemplar's Journal: News that Matters - 18th August 2003 2
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TODAY'S HEADLINES
A babe in arms - literally
Mental blocks to peace in the Middle East
Chinese tiger cubs given hunting lessons - in South Africa
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A babe in arms - literally
Private Damien Kenny and Private Jonathan Hunt were searching a house in Basra in the south of the country after rounding up five terror suspects when they made their amazing discovery.
There, in a dusty 3ft-long padlocked metal box and nestling among rocket-propelled grenade launchers, AK47s and ammunition, was little Rose.
Tightly swaddled and barely two days old, she was no longer breathing.
Putting down their own weapons, the squaddies began giving her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
A few minutes later they were rewarded for their quick thinking when Rose - named by the soldiers after the red rose of their Lancashire regiment - squeezed Private Kenny's finger.
Happily, they were able to find her mother, and the two were reunited.
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Mental blocks to peace in the Middle East
By the side of a path on a hillside north of Jerusalem hangs a sign offering a blunt riposte to those who harbour plans to tamper with the fate of the land.
"Only the Bible is the roadmap of the Jewish people," it says in a message directed far beyond the itinerants who pass by.
It is here, in what the settlers call the Judean hills, that the roadmap, the US-backed blueprint for peace, has few takers and will face its sternest test.
They don't have much time for Mr Sharon, their former champion, either...
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Chinese tiger cubs given hunting lessons - in South Africa
The two South China tiger cubs were born at Shanghai Zoo, but lack of both space and trainers has hampered efforts to teach them to hunt for themselves. So they are travelling to South Africa, where they will live in a 30-square-kilometre enclosure, and be able to stalk the wildlife. A similar program helped two Bengal tigers to improve their kill-times from 40 minutes to 20 seconds.
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