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...Holland case is only one in a catalog of little-known but horrific disasters detailed in a confidential report by Alan Diehl, the Air Force's former top civilian safety official. The litany -- obtained by TIME last week -- includes 30 cases of mangled military probes and cover-ups by "incompetents, charlatans and sycophants." Diehl charges that Air Force crash probes are routinely sabotaged by officers seeking to please superiors, hide culpability and avoid embarrassment. Accidents like Holland's, says Diehl, "suggest the all too familiar pattern of ignoring dangerous behavior of certain individuals, especially when they are well liked, regarded...
...most military units, their men and their commanders when he writes, "we opened the gates of hell on that country, and we didn't spend much time making distinctions between enemies and friends. Entire towns were destroyed, others devastated by our jets and artillery. Most of the dead were civilians.'' In Vietnam, well-run and honorably commanded units took extraordinary care and considerable risk to minimize civilian casualties and damage. Wolff demeans those of us who tried with all our hearts to be as humane as war allows...
...true in part, and therefore false." It seems it would be slightly more precise to say that although there were other pressures upon the Palestinians to flee their homeland in 1948, one indisputable cause of the mass exodus was the brutal violence with which the Israeli militia drove the civilian population out. The article does concede that "it was the policy of the Israeli High Command to secure the evacuation by the Arabs." Yet it fails to explain that the Israelis used all means necessary (which included destruction of entire towns, massacres of Palestinians who refused to flee...
...across the former Soviet Union to celebrate their victory 50 years ago over Nazi Germany. In Moscow and Kiev, in St. Petersburg and Nizhni Novgorod, authorities are organizing rallies and parades to honor the old soldiers. And the old soldiers, rows of military medals pinned to their civilian clothes, are reminiscing about the war, the friends they lost and the savage, tragic history of the country they saved. Their stories are of heroism and struggle, of joy and sadness...
McVeigh left active duty on Dec. 31, 1991, and for the next six months served with the New York National Guard. According to an Army official, McVeigh then left the military four years into his eight-year hitch, writing a letter to his commander claiming that his civilian job required his presence. "But the letter was real vague-it didn't say just what this new job was," the official says. Though he worked off and on as a security guard, both near his hometown of Pendleton, New York, and in Arizona, Terry Nichols has said the two also worked...