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Washington -- Navy flyers will want to reconsider attending the TAILHOOK ASSOCIATION CONVENTION set to begin Oct. 10 in San Diego. Navy brass sent a memo to active-duty and reserve flyers telling them that after years of cooperation, the Navy has "terminated all support, direct or indirect, for the Tailhook Association." Meanwhile, Navy Secretary John Dalton has quietly summoned to D.C. some two dozen officers who attended Tailhook to give them a chance to explain their conduct before their court cases go forward...
...preserve the sense of Agassiz's history, a brass eagle located at the school's original entrance, as well as the building's front doors, will be reused...
...ironic twist, it was the threat of Hamas that in some measure persuaded both the P.L.O. and the Israeli government to come down to brass tacks in Norway--the P.L.O. because it had everything to lose under an ascendant Hamas and Israel because Hamas made even the P.L.O. look moderate. Hamas remains a threat, however--both in its influence among Palestinians and in its volatile nature. It has nothing to lose by trying to violently disrupt the peace process and everything to gain. Viewed in this light, Jericho was a brilliant choice for a P.L.O. capital--it is practically...
...talk to one another electronically. During Desert Storm, Air Force pilots couldn't talk by radio, fax or computer to Navy pilots, and ) neither group could communicate directly with Army ground troops. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell has been showing off the device to top brass who visit his office. As a general says, "This is far more important than a new tank or an airplane...
...fifth movement, the strings made it clear that they could play off the winds more easily than the brass that sometimes seemed altogether incongruous. The violins did display incredible volume control, slowly ascending to the finale. Mehta became more animated, cutting circles from the air to cue the violin pizzacati. Mehta did not use his left hand, though, until the very end, when the Bartok brought the full magnitude of the orchestra into being...