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...professional soldier all his life, has an image as a rough-hewn nationalist and patriot. As an airborne commander in Afghanistan, Tbilisi and the former Soviet republic of Moldova, he was famous for using force first and asking questions later, if at all. His troops wielded shovels to crack civilian skulls in rebellious Georgia and let fly with heavy artillery to protect Russian separatists from ethnic Moldovans. He was also fairly insubordinate. "He smashed the Russian army tradition of servility to superiors," says Colonel Victor Baranets, a staff officer at the Defense Ministry. "He calls a spade a spade...
...gathered confidential FBI files that contained private information about 408 people, most of them Republicans who served in the Reagan and Bush administrations. Stored for two years in the vault behind Livingstone's desk, the reports were collected in 1993 and 1994 by Livingstone's friend Anthony Marceca, a civilian gumshoe with the Army's criminal-investigation command whom Livingstone handpicked to help process a mountain of security-clearance forms...
...sailors, it may have been an offer too good to refuse. The Pentagon confirmed last week that 20 Navy enlisted men and women, one lieutenant commander and at least one U.S. civilian were involved in an international drug-trafficking operation directed by Nigerian organized-crime barons. Five sailors have been convicted of drug-smuggling charges and are serving time in Italian prisons or the Navy brig in Rota, Spain. The rest are awaiting trial or further investigation...
...factors were necessary for the accident to occur. The report said the plane should never have been allowed to land at Dubrovnik, because it was not equipped to handle the airport's 1930's-era navigational landing system. In addition, the pilots were not properly trained for landing at civilian airports, particularly in Eastern European countries. As a result, the pilots spent the last minutes of their lives dealing with unfamiliar procedures which led to "uncharacteristic mistakes." "There is a sad satisfaction in the Air Force that people are being held accountable for obvious screw-ups," says TIME's Mark...
...Armed Services committee and the Defense Department will review the policy which allowed Johnson to earn $33,000 a year for sitting on a corporate board. Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Strom Thurmond announced today that his committee will investigate policies on outside pay for both military and civilian appointees. Thurmond had raised questions about the Pentagon policy Wednesday, following President Clinton's selection of Johnson to replace Admiral Jeremy (Mike) Boorda as Navy chief of staff after Boorda's May 16 suicide. While there is no indication that Johnson had violated any regulations, to avoid becoming personally tangled...