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...Number of toxic Superfund sites still in need of cleanup...
...solution to the U.S. military's problem of being overextended lies not in adding more troops [COVER STORY, Sept. 1] but in better planning. If the military "lacks the cleanup crews"--the military police, engineering units and street-by-street peacekeepers needed to occupy whole countries for months if not years--then it shouldn't be making messes in the first place. U.S. troops should be assisted by crews provided by other countries. We must give up our unilateral madness. TOM CIRIL Long Beach, Calif...
...Stretched Too Thin? The solution to the U.S. military's problem of being overextended lies not in adding more troops [Sept. 1] but in better planning. If the military "lacks the cleanup crews"-the military police, engineering units and street-by-street peacekeepers needed to occupy whole countries for months if not years-then it shouldn't be making messes in the first place. U.S. troops should be assisted by crews provided by other countries. We must give up our unilateral madness. Tom Ciril Long Beach...
...retrieve K-159 by next year - without foreign assistance. TIME's source is skeptical: the navy is short on funds. Three years after the Kursk disaster, it still hasn't bought the gear necessary for such an operation. The government, meanwhile, has allocated only $70 million for all nuclear cleanup and maintenance in Russia. It cost $150 million to recover the Kursk...
...aren't. Even without new missions, the armed services are straining to handle the ones they have. The U.S. military proved in its 21-day march to Baghdad that its infantrymen, tankers and artillerymen can be brilliantly efficient when called upon to conquer a country. But America lacks the cleanup crews--the military police, the civil-affairs experts, the engineering units and all the other street-by-street peacekeepers--needed to occupy whole countries for months if not years, particularly if gratitude is not always the local custom...