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...year after it passed the 1984 Boland Amendment banning U.S. military assistance to the Nicaraguan Contras, Congress received news reports that North, then a Marine lieutenant colonel, was secretly raising money for the rebels from foreign countries and private donors and providing tactical military advice...
...love the smell of napalm in the morning," declared Lieut. Colonel Kilgore in the epic Apocalypse Now. Any deskbound battle buff who shares that sentiment will find a sensory treat in the current issue of Armed Forces Journal International, a Washington-based monthly. BEI Defense Systems, a Fort Worth-based arms manufacturer (1988 sales: $51 million), has come up with a novel twist on the aromatic advertisements that fill consumer magazines. When scratched, the latest ads for its Hydra-70, a relatively inexpensive rocket ($400 to $800), emit the odor of burnt cordite, an explosive substance in such weapons...
Radio stations in the capital reported Stroessner was accompanied by his two sons--Gustavo, an air force lieutenant colonel who was considered Stroessner's heir apparent, and Alfredo...
Many political and military officials are worried the measures will serve mainly to brutalize Israel's soldiers. Warned Meir Pa'il, a retired colonel: "If we continue, the real danger is that our soldiers will be turned into beasts." That is already happening, said a lieutenant colonel in charge of % one West Bank military district: "The first time you see someone whose face is swollen after a beating by our soldiers, you are horrified. The second time is not so terrible anymore. The third time, you are indifferent...
...early 1987 U.S. intelligence officials had become concerned that Libya's mercurial leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, was developing a chemical-weapons capability. By mid-1987 U.S. analysts were convinced that a facility at Rabta, 50 miles southwest of Tripoli, which began showing up in satellite photos in 1985, was indeed a chemical-weapons plant. Code-named "Pharma-150" by the Libyans, the plant was built under tight security conditions, with a 1,300-man force of cheap labor imported from Thailand. Foreign consultants entered the country without visas and left no hotel or other records of their stay in Libya...