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...more combat decorations than any other soldier in American history, including the Medal of Honor and seven Purple Hearts for wounds received in combat, like the bullet that tore out a vocal cord and left him raspy-voiced to the end of his days. He led a milder civilian life as a recreation director...
...means-testing benefits, Peter Peterson, the investment banker and former Secretary of Commerce who helped found the antideficit Concord Coalition, proposes a detailed plan: households with annual incomes of more than $35,000 would have all their federal benefits, including Medicare, civilian and military pensions, farm subsidies as well as Social Security, reduced on a sliding scale starting at 7.5% and going up an additional 5% for every $10,000 of extra income. At $185,000 or above, households would lose 85% of federal benefits. Peterson figures his plan would save $36 billion annually in Social Security outlays...
There is another side to the story not visible in the scrapbook or part of the government's tour. To see it, one must meet clandestinely with F.I.S. contacts who, in fearful asides, offer tales of summary killings by government security forces. Terrified civilians whisper of special execution brigades, dressed in civilian clothes, that roam the country hunting down and murdering Islamists. City residents say police patrols have fired at random into civilian crowds after being ambushed. In February, the same month in which the government quelled a riot in the Serkadji prison by killing more than 96 prisoners-Islamists...
...plane, a Falcon 900 with registration XAR-GB, has been parked in a hangar on the civilian side of the airport, Massachusetts Port Authority spokesperson Christina Cassotis told The Associated Press...
...career was meteoric: two tours in Vietnam, second in his class at the Army's Command and General Staff College. But Powell's finest hours were in the Pentagon. Serving as military aide to a series of top civilian officials, he impressed each one with his loyalty, intelligence and political skill. Lawrence Korb, an Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration, calls Powell "as astute a politician as I've met." After serving as Ronald Reagan's National Security Adviser, Powell rejoined the Army in 1989. But within a year George Bush promoted him to become...