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Critics will be looking for signs of her influence as the Commander in Chief considers the plight of Puerto Rico's Vieques Island. Navy Secretary Richard Danzig says the live-ammo range there is "an important and irreplaceable site," vital to assuring Navy and Marine combat effectiveness. But after two stray 500-lb. bombs killed a security guard and injured four other civilians last April, the island's 9,300 residents declared that they had had enough. Nowhere have they found more sympathy than in New York, a city that has one-quarter the number of Puerto Ricans that Puerto...
...details don't matter. There is no excuse, no good reason I am sure no one will understand. If they could I wouldn't want them to... You should kill me if you can." He took care of that himself, but not before arming himself with 200 rounds of ammo and a small collection of guns--a couple of which he had owned for years--and taking nine more people with...
...were utterly without pity. Survivors said they treated it like a video game. "We've waited to do this a long time," they said. At one point one of the gunmen recognized a student and said, "Oh, I know you--you can go." And then, "We're out of ammo.. gotta reload. We'll come back to get you three...
Some in the Army argue that building a smaller armored force is foolish until key advances have been made, especially in the areas of fuel and ammo, which armored forces devour. Electromagnetic guns, lasers, and new fuel types could allow the Army to achieve its goal of fielding such a force that could fight for two weeks without resupply. But until then, the speed of deployment is mostly dependent on how quickly the Army can set up logistics links. Napoleon's old dictum that an army travels on its stomach remains true today...
...operation hard. Kosovo's mountains stretch up nearly 9,000 ft., and the snow-clogged highlands are almost completely underdeveloped, with few four-wheel-drive tracks and no roads. The only modes of transport are donkeys and feet--a kind of primitiveness that serves as a leveller between the ammo-starved K.L.A. and the powerfully armed Serbs...