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Potere emphasized that cadets chat about possible military careers just as civilian students discuss recruiting options or the job market...
...Pentagon is getting ready to protect wives like LaFrancis from their armed husbands. The story of how this came to be is partly about unintended consequences and partly about how the values of the civilian world are increasingly encroaching on the military. Last fall Congress passed a wide-ranging law meant to combat domestic violence in all corners of American society by banning weapons from those convicted of such crimes. So sometime next month the Pentagon plans to begin enforcing the law in its own ranks by stripping weapons from hundreds, if not thousands, of military personnel. Anyone...
What seems like a simple solution to a chronic problem in civilian life takes on complications in a fighting force. Pentagon attorneys say the law's definition of "firearms" is so broad that by year's end the military may have to bar those convicted of familial violence from operating weapons like M-1 tanks, F-16 jet fighters and MX missiles, among others. And nothing is simple at the Pentagon: military pilots, after all, must carry sidearms to protect themselves and their planes when flying into trouble spots. So even if an F-16 is not deemed a "firearm...
...sinner. They wanted Washington to sign mainly to put pressure on other major states to get aboard. Now it is unlikely that Russia, China, Vietnam, India, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Israel and others will sign on. Nor will North or South Korea. But most of the civilian casualties are suffered in such war-torn states as Cambodia, Angola, Afghanistan, Namibia and Mozambique, where millions of abandoned mines lie in wait. Those countries are expected to sign...
...Vadis" brand septanote (seven day) wonder is a black vinyl number that she whips out at any opportunity-whether jotting election battle plans or setting a civilian lunch date. "Quo Vadis" claims a pedigree dating back to 1954 and sports the suspect warning that "Quo Vadis diaries are addictive...