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...Clinton went before the cameras in the Oval Office and proclaimed the policy: he is sending 1,700 more crack troops to Somalia, plus 104 tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles (essentially personnel carriers) and four Cobra attack helicopters. They ought to be able to handle Aidid, at least in open combat. But if not, an additional 3,600 Marines will be waiting offshore ready to go in. Altogether the available force will be about doubled to 10,000. And that does not count another 10,000 or so aboard the ships of a carrier battle group that will steam around...
...Navy technology: a Stealth ship. Designed by the same Lockheed "skunk works" that built the F-117A Stealth fighter, the ship has sloping angles and a special coating designed to make it nearly invisible to enemy sonar and radar. Such stealthy boats might someday guard the perimeter of carrier groups, covertly launch surface-to-air missiles or make nighttime troop landings all but undetectable...
Washington -- Having beaten the President on the gays-in-uniform issue, the military has challenged Clinton's resolve on other campaign promises. In one instance, the Navy appears to have done so successfully: it has persuaded Clinton to drop his pledge to reduce the number of carrier task forces from 13 to 10. A forthcoming Pentagon planning document states that the Navy will retain 12 of its carrier battle groups. Depending on how many vessels each one includes, a carrier battle group costs upwards of $20 billion...
Hizballah, the Shi'ite Muslim Party of God, arrived publicly on the Middle East scene a decade ago in a hail of gunfire: young fighters, armed with grenades and shouting "Allahu Akbar!" captured an invading Israeli armored personnel carrier near Beirut in June 1982 and paraded it through the city. They took their name from a verse in the Koran, "Lo, the Party of God, they are victorious," and their money, weapons and inspiration from fundamentalist sponsors in Tehran...
...start-ups have already received more protection from Clinton Democrats than they received in the entire deregulated Republican 1980s. When Reno Air cried foul after Northwest Airlines tried to squeeze the smaller carrier out of the Los Angeles, San Diego and Seattle markets last March, Transportation Secretary Federico Pena pressured the bigger carrier to withdraw under the threat of antitrust action...