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...Balkan terrain makes for tougher fighting than Iraq's wide open deserts; Serbs would hold the high ground, including passes too narrow for tanks; mines salt the few roads and bridges. Such pitfalls loom large for officers who came of age in Vietnam. "Part of contingency planning," a Pentagon colonel says, "is looking at options and ruling them...
American officers also grouse that they sometimes have to use smaller bombs than usual to reduce the blast area. "About 1 of every 5 bombs we dropped last night from F-117s were 500-pounders," grumbled a colonel, "and not the 2,000-pounders we have always used." Smaller bombs mean there's less certainty about destroying the target in one attack. And if the pilot has to come back, that increases the risk to him in order to lessen the risk to civilians on the ground--a kind of Disneyland idea of customer service that rankles many war fighters...
With all respect to the young man who reported my remarks at Harvard Hall (News, Feb. 23), I am not the Colonel Blimp his account makes me out to be. I did not condemn "universities" as your headline writer puts it either. I deplored the situation on liberal arts faculties, which tend to be dominated by an intolerant and exclusionary professorial left. Like most liberal arts colleges, Harvard has but a handful of conservatives among its hundreds of faculty. This is inexcusable. It is the product of a hiring process that has become highly (if often subtly) political...
...With all respect to the young man who reported my remarks at Harvard Hall (News, Feb. 23), I am not the Colonel Blimp his account makes me out to be. I did not condemn "universities" as your headline writer puts it either. I deplored the situation on liberal arts faculties, which tend to be dominated by an intolerant and exclusionary professorial left. Like most liberal arts colleges, Harvard has but a handful of conservatives among its hundreds of faculty. This is inexcusable. It is the product of a hiring process that has become highly (if often subtly) political...
Jackson is beginning work on a new film withTommy Lee Jones '69, a military courtroom dramacalled "Rules of Engagement." Jackson plays amarine colonel who is being court-marshaled formurder...