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Garner, reporting to Franks, would take charge of all civilian matters. He would coordinate reconstruction and civil administration and quickly, Washington hopes, shift humanitarian assistance from the military to U.N. and nongovernmental agencies. Initially, there was talk of making a civilian top dog to take some of the onus off a military occupation. But a senior White House official tells TIME, "A civilian czar is not what people have in mind." The U.S. feels that one more link in the chain of command would weaken the effectiveness of the operation...
...program touted as a model for teaching character, and three years later it instituted a rape-crisis hot line run by cadets. The academy claims fewer than 100 calls were placed to the hot line between 1996 and 2002, but this may be because some cadets went to civilian rape-crisis centers. A center in Colorado Springs says it has counseled at least 22 cadets over the past 15 years, including one who was gang-raped. In the past seven years, only 20 cases of sexual assault have been formally investigated at the school, leading to the dismissal of eight...
...movies like Armageddon and partly because the Pentagon had mostly kept news cameras away from the hostilities. Military officials probably thought they would come off better in a series from the maker of Black Hawk Down, and you can see why. There's a little about Afghan civilian casualties--from Afghan-laid mines, not U.S. bombs--and a lot about troops building girls' schools and teaching kids to play baseball. And many of the soldiers' comments are backhandedly political. One sailor says he has no scruples about rifling through the Iraqi smugglers' things, because "they wiped out how many thousands...
...Nigeria's main opposition party the All Nigeria Peoples Party; in Abuja, Nigeria. Marshall was shot dead by unidentified gunmen outside his home in what police believe was a political killing in the run-up to Nigeria's elections in April, the first to be organized by a civilian government in more than 20 years...
...reinforced, ammunition is being brought forward andtanks are being deployed around Tuz Khurmatu and, more worrying, mysterious covered vehicles the peshmerga say "are like the ones Colin Powell had pictured at the UN" are supposedly arriving at night at a nearby airfield. Tougher restrictions are being imposed on the civilian traffic passing into Baghdad's territory. At Chamchamal, west of Sulaimaniya, fewer and fewer cars are allowed to cross each day. At Kifri, further south, goods had been smuggling back and forth thanks to bribes to the Iraqi border guards. On March 1 Iraqi secret police posed as travelers...