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...duty assignment was to select the best-suited aircraft to fly each mission scheduled at the base. His military record is unremarkable except for an achievement medal awarded in 1997. "He was a pretty quiet guy, and he was always playing basketball on base," says Emma Wilkinson, 26, a civilian friend. "He didn't hit the club scene that much...
...choice was laid out in two reports that are on Rumsfeld?s desk right now. One, by civilian analysts in the Pentagon?s Office of Program Analysis and Evaluation, concluded that the armed forces could be reduced by well over 10 percent without strategic detriment - with the savings getting ploughed back into the sort of high-tech weapons systems and generation-skipping investments that Bush talked about. The other, from aides to the generals that make up the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was simpler: Keep the military at its current size of 1.4 million people on active-duty...
...with Flushed with Pride, the story of John Crapper, father of the modern toilet and Bust-Up, a spoof biography of the inventor of the modern bra, Otto Titzling. DIED. PAUL MAGLOIRE, 93, dictator of Haiti from 1950 to 1956; near Port-au-Prince. The former general who overthrew civilian President Dumarsais Estime in 1950 oversaw Haiti's most marked period of prosperity, the result of a record influx of tourists and high coffee exports. But Hurricane Hazel in 1954 inflicted heavy damage on the country, and he was abandoned by his junta two years later. Exiled to New York...
...whether or not the Macedonians feel betrayed by NATO's cease-fire efforts may prove to be a moot point. Right now, the rebels are advancing on a number of fronts, looking to cement territorial gains. Government forces are launching fierce artillery assaults in their general direction, inevitably inflicting civilian casualties that will radicalize the wider ethnic-Albanian population. And back in Skopje, President Trajkovski faces mounting pressure from Macedonian nationalists baying for a military solution. The odds against the center holding are growing longer...
...exotic adventure in a city of decaying French colonial mansions, golden stupas and languid monks wrapped in saffron robes. Once he had slowed down to the somnolent pace, Kerry felt his job as head of security company Lao Securicor was the perfect transition from soldier to civilian. A military man with a square build and a hard chin, he had spent 20 years in Australia's Elite Special Air Service. Now he was giving orders instead of taking them...