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...Andrew B. Pacelli ’04, Colonel Sanders means more than fried chicken. He is a patriot, philanthropist and—most of all—honorary kinsman. That’s because Pacelli is a colonel himself...
Pacelli and the late Sanders are members of the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels, a philanthropic group commissioned by the governor of Kentucky. You don’t have to know how to hold a gun—Sanders himself never spent a day in the military. “[Sanders is] as much a colonel as I am,” Pacelli says. Moreover, you don’t even have to be from Kentucky, although it helps to know the governor...
...public opinion is coming around. At coffee shops and water coolers, Powell's performance won high marks. To be sure, there are plenty of Americans like Vicki Pollyea, an Air Force colonel's daughter in Tampa, Fla., who feel "we're jumping into something extremely dangerous without world support, and it has a real feeling of Vietnam." But in the TIME/CNN poll, 17% said Powell had changed their mind. Before his speech, they opposed sending troops to Iraq; now they favored it. "It scared me," said Abby Headrick, 20, a University of Georgia junior, of the speech...
...Recent army reports have Muklis hiding out in the cloud-swathed mountain range that rises abruptly from the placid waters of Lake Lanao in central Mindanao. "Getting into that area is very, very difficult," says Colonel Ernesto Boac, commander of the army brigade based in Marawi. Standing in front of a topographical wall map, he points to the densely wrinkled contours along the provincial border south of the lake. "It's difficult getting human intelligence out of there, and we're not picking up radio transmissions. It's a black hole." Not just for the Philip-pines, but increasingly...
...chemical and biological attacks, skills picked up during the cold war. But the biggest dangers might not come from missiles bearing nerve agent or VX gas. "Saddam may use nonmilitary chemicals and rig up booby traps that detonate when you open a door or step on something," says Lieut. Colonel Ivo Musil, chief of operations for around 390 Kuwait-based Czech soldiers, part of a "consequence-management team" tasked with detecting and cleaning up after a chemical or biological assault. The vapors of many industrial chemicals - including phosgene, chlorine and simple ammonia - can burn, corrode equipment or even kill. Here...