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...what is the MDC for if not protecting a tradition like the Head of the Charles? The only "problem" is that the MDC either sends 30 patrolman to control a crowd of 200,000, as it did two years ago, or announces the end of fun and sends a battalion of 300 police dressed like comic book heroes, as it did this year...
...Eaton Canyon in the San Gabriel Mountains, a man was killed when he was buried under seven feet of earth 35 feet into a tunnel under construction, Pasadena Fire Battalion Chief Duncan Baird said...
...flame to fuse, trembling in anticipation of a blow-up in my face. BOOM. A flaming pink ball shot out. I could feel the explosive force as I clenched the "Thunder Buster" roman candle tube, and I began to aim thundering blasts of white, green and pink at the battalion of surrounding trees--my own sandlot Star Wars...
Colonel Carmine Delgrosso, a 24-year Marine veteran, has commanded the embassy guard battalion since May 1986. In an interview last week, he defended the record of the Marshall Hall training program and the overall record of Marine guards. Occasionally, Delgrosso was nearly overcome with emotion as he talked of his loyalty to the Corps, his eyes filling with tears. "In a security system, the last thin, red line is the human factor," Delgrosso said. "In the end, everything centers on integrity. How do we guarantee integrity? We look for maturity, judgment. It's clear that Lonetree and Bracy...
...full-scale counterintelligence investigation." All 28 Marines assigned to Moscow are being replaced. State Department security officials will accompany the new guards on their rounds. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and the House and Senate intelligence committees ordered broad investigations into the entire 1,400-man Marine Security Guard battalion to which Bracy and Lonetree belonged...