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...Force review of an uncomfortably close encounter between an F-16 and a passenger jet preparing to land at JFK airport in New York has concluded that the military air traffic controller was responsible for the incident. While the Nations Air flight had been cleared by civilian controllers to approach JFK, military air traffic control failed to inform the F-16 pilot that the airliner was in the area. While the F-16 pilot?s commander quickly instructed him to veer away from the airliner, Air Force officials so far have no plans to reprimand the pilot for hanging frighteningly...
This is certainly not what the Clinton Administration had in mind in September 1994 when the U.S. military invaded Haiti to reinstate the country's first freely elected President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Shortly after Aristide's return, the U.S. created the first civilian police force in Haitian history. It was to be the cornerstone of Haiti's new democracy. With trustworthy police, U.S. officials predicted, Haiti could finally begin to deconstruct its dictatorship, reconstruct its economy and build from scratch all the judicial, political and civil institutions necessary for a working democracy...
Obviously, the Israeli government is reluctant about its presence in Southern Lebanon, which only the will to survive necessitates. Tremendous hazards would befall Israeli civilian communities living in Northern Israel were Israeli troops to retreat from their positions. The doubts created by the Times, the AP, the foreign minister, the Sheikh and others raise the insidious moral question of the legitimacy of Israel's southern Lebanon positions, and hence, are an attack upon Israel's right to self-defense...
...ensuring the safety of the Lebanese Christians. Israel has no desire to be in Lebanon. The alternative, however, is far worse. With the Israel army in southern Lebanon, the targets afforded Hizbullah are military ones. Without an Israeli military presence in the security zone, all of northern Israel's civilian population is open to attack...
...YORK: If two F-16's hadn't on Wednesday come so close to a civilian plane that collision alarms went off, news that four National Guard fighter jets passed close to another commercial flight would have barely registered on the media radar screen. But the planes did, and for the second day in a row, Pentagon officials found themselves explaining a miss that, while not nearly as close a call at the first one, has raised concerns about the safety in the airspace between New York and Washington, D.C. As an investigation into Wednesday's incident continues, Pentagon officials...