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...other cadet remained overnight in the infirmary, where Faulkner, still unable to hold down even a few crackers, was fed intravenously. She remained in the infirmary until Friday. By then Citadel spokesman Colonel Terry Leedom was announcing that for Faulkner, trying to make up for missing Hell Week would be like "entering the Indianapolis 500 on the 25th...
Once there, however, the 99th was relegated to the routine duty of strafing ground targets. Eventually, they began escorting bombers to their targets, but the commander of the fighter group, Colonel William Momyer, went out of his way to make them feel unwelcome. Time, in its Sept. 20, 1943, issue, questioned the fighting capability of blacks in general, asking, "Is the Negro as good a soldier as the white...
DIED. OVETA CULP HOBBY, 90, public servant and newspaper executive; in Houston. No job was too big for the "Little Colonel," who in 1941 rose from co-managing the Houston Post to commanding the Women's Army Corps. She was appointed the nation's first Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in 1953; her resignation two years later prompted Treasury Secretary George Humphrey to gasp, "What? The best man in the Cabinet...
...Saddam's, figured as a pillar of that edifice. Since the 1980s he has overseen procurement of the nightmarish weaponry that variously made his boss a hero in the eyes of some Arabs and an outlaw menace to most of the world. Meanwhile, Hussein Kamel's younger brother, Colonel Saddam Kamel al-Majid, headed the President's elite corps of personal bodyguards. The U.S., thirsting for what a Pentagon official called a potential "intelligence bonanza," pledged at once to defend Jordan against any reprisals and sent Arabic-speaking CIA specialists to Amman in hopes of debriefing the defectors. A senior...
...sipping whiskey and carving a ham, both forbidden in Islam. (In Haiti the CIA had even thought of synthesizing the voice of the late and much feared dictator Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier to urge superstitious soldiers to surrender.) For now, ethics and strategy argue against such tactics. Says Colonel Jeffrey Jones, former commander of the psy-ops group: "The truth is our best weapon...