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...Special Operations Forces and its Delta Force on covert operations between 1981 and 1983. Investigators for both the Army and the Justice Department suspect that a small number of the Delta Force troops may have diverted as much as $500,000 to personal use and that a Special Operations colonel and perhaps three of his colleagues stole at least $60,000, mainly by double-billing the Government for claimed expenses...
...officer, Lieut. Colonel Dale Duncan, 39, was indicted on seven counts last week by a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Va. He was charged with submitting vouchers for $56,230 for the purchase of electronic equipment in August 1982, even though an Army intelligence agency had already paid for the same gear. Duncan also allegedly submitted a bill for $8,400, to charter a private aircraft, that had already been almost entirely paid for. The indictment claims as well that Duncan charged the Army $796 for a four-flight airline ticket that he got free through a frequent-flyer program...
...motley conspiracy to place a third-party candidate, a former Texas Governor, in the White House. Co-Author Arnold Grossman is a campaign media packager, and so is the book's hero. The narrative begins with the claim that "given a large enough budget and enough creative genius, Colonel Qaddafi could get himself elected president." Voters may not be as gullible as the authors suggest: despite an $11 million expenditure, John Connally bought just one Republican delegate in 1980. Still, 1988 is provocative: it presupposes that Ronald Reagan's second term will end in failure, leading to a contest between...
...with happy anticipation that retired Air Force Colonel David Antoon and his son Ryan, 18, arrived last year at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., for an orientation for accepted students. But their pride soon turned to perplexity. On the schedule was a visit to the school chapel. A loyal alumnus, Antoon remembered academy chaplains as a low-key group who made no attempt to press their brand of faith on others. But that day, before a crowd that probably included future cadets of all creeds, the chaplain at the microphone boasted about the huge popularity of Christian...
...Controversial Death The armed forces of the Philippines welcome the candid reporting in Anthony Spaeth's "Under the Gun" [May 9]. However, we are troubled by Mr. Spaeth's unfair use of the memory of the late Lieut. Colonel Dennis Villaneuva, a fine gentleman-officer. The article quips that Villaneuva's death is a "mystery worth pursuing," and asks, "Was Dennis Villaneuva a casualty of his employer's shoddiness?" Zeroing in on the facts, the cause of death was a heart attack secondary to massive organ malfunction due to severe loss of blood and/or bodily fluids. He died after...