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...cameras were going to be side-by-side with the nation's finest on U.S. ships and aircraft. With the Pentagon's budget shrinking so steadily, one has to wonder what arrangements were made by the networks to get these terrific front-row seats. It's a bloody shame we didn't invade Haiti. It was the only respite we might have gotten from O.J. Simpson...
...Chief. If George Bush was famous for getting out the Filofax and phoning world leaders in pursuit of diplomatic goals, it was Bill Clinton who picked up the phone last summer and talked King Fahd of Saudi Arabia into buying $6 billion worth of Boeing and McDonnell Douglas civilian aircraft, and then got the Export-Import Bank to sweeten the deal so that European rival Airbus could not steal it away. Last May the President helped AT&T close a $4 billion deal for Saudi telecommunications modernization. He intervened again last June to persuade the Brazilian government to award...
...have been dropping for decades and lately have stabilized at levels so low that they are difficult even to express as a statistical risk. The National Transportation Safety Board counts 31 fatalities suffered by passengers aboard major U.S. carriers during 1992, which works out to 0.0006 deaths per million aircraft miles flown. Last year that number fell close to an irreducible minimum. As far as major U.S. airlines were concerned, there were no fatalities at all in the air, only one in a ground accident...
Preparing to make good on Secretary of State Warren Christopher's threat that the Haitian military government's "days are definitely numbered," the Pentagon said a fleet of giant cargo ships and an aircraft carrier crammed with helicopters would soon be bound for the waters off the Haitian coast. The Defense Department also announced that the total U.S. troop participation in an invasion of Haiti would be around 20,000 -- higher than previous estimates...
...mothballs; a day later, he activated five more supply vessels. They are expected to set sail this week to transport weapons and materiel for the Army's 10th Mountain Division, which will play a key part in the postinvasion peacekeeping force. On Friday, Pentagon officials said that the aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower will pull into its berth in Norfolk, Virginia, this week and begin replacing its planes with 70 helicopters, which can more easily land troops in Haiti. By late this week, the Ike and the U.S.S. Mount Whitney, which will serve as the invasion's command vessel, will...