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...closing a base necessarily the economic catastrophe communities fear? The evidence suggests that it isn't. The Defense Department estimates that the areas surrounding the 97 major bases closed during the past four rounds (in 1988, 1991, 1993 and 1995) have so far replaced almost 85% of the civilian jobs lost. An independent study released in May by the Government Accountability Office concluded that most of those communities "are faring well compared with average U.S. rates for unemployment and income growth...
...that such bombs will never be used again. Robert P. Good Shenandoah, Virginia, U.S. Has Time forgotten Japan 's cowardly attack on Pearl Harbor? The thousands of Allied soldiers who perished in Japan's barbaric prison camps? The Korean women forced into prostitution? Or the hundreds of thousands of civilian Chinese slaughtered in Nanking? If Japan still finds it appropriate to honor the victims of the atom bombs dropped on two of its cities 60 years ago, it should own up to all the war crimes its armed forces committed prior to that. Lisa Ahlqvist Copenhagen As a student ambassador...
RELIEVED. KEVIN BYRNES, 55, four-star general and decorated Vietnam veteran; of his command as head of Army training, following an investigation into his alleged adulterous affair with a civilian; in Fort Monroe, Va. In a rare removal of such a senior officer, the Army booted Byrnes three months before he was set to retire after 36 years of service...
...accord on what that meant. North Korea, which has stated it needs nuclear weapons to defend itself against a "hostile" U.S., is arguing that a deal must include removal of any U.S. nuclear threat in the region?a nonstarter with Washington. The North also wants to keep its nascent civilian nuclear program, but the U.S. fears that would mean Pyongyang could still sell the building blocks of nuclear weapons technology to terrorists and other rogue nations. The two countries also remain at loggerheads over the timing of aid given to the North in exchange for verifiable disarmament. Hill indicated...
...were arrested on suspicion of shooting dead an Islamic teacher in Pattani more than seven months ago. But such arrests are conspicuously rare. Inadequate intelligence gathering is largely to blame. Angered by state repression and fearful of militant reprisals, Muslims are unwilling to volunteer information to military and civilian authorities, who in turn are reluctant to share it with one another. So far, no weapons caches or bomb factories have been found. "The intelligence record is dismal," says Abuza...