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...Psywarriors have found that "the truth is the best propaganda," says Col. James Treadwell, the 4th Group's commander. Otherwise, "you lose credibility," he explains, and the audience tunes out. Leaflets have explained how to use relief food packets and warned civilians to stay away from combat zones. Commando Solo's broadcasts mix world news stories with sales pitches. A recent show, for example, reported on United Nations efforts to organize Taliban opposition groups and ended with the plea: "this must happen for there to finally be peace in Afghanistan...
...Col. John DiFava, the interim head of security at Logan who gave the order, said the breaches, including two lapses at Logan after Sept. 11, gave “ample cause” for barring the company from further operations at the airport...
...explain why he ignored them until Sept. 11. When the bipartisan commission presented its 50 recommendations to Bush in the spring of this year, the White House was less than receptive. “Frankly, the White House shut it down,” said Senator Gary Hart (D-Col), the commission’s co-chair, in a Salon.com article. Instead, Bush announced his own plan in May, which made no reference to the commission’s recommendations. Rather than create a Homeland Security agency—which meant more government, a no-no in the Bush campaign?...
...undoubtedly "Strangelove." Kubrick retained his services to turn the movie's source-material, a rather starkly serious novel, into the "nightmare comedy" that set the standard for black humor in the '60s. Southern's warped sensibility is stamped throughout the film - especially in sequences like the one where Col. "Bat" Guano ("if that is indeed your name") suspects Group Captain Mandrake of committing "preversions" in a phone booth. The other title invariably connected with Southern's name, "Easy Rider," demonstrates his mastery at delineating characters through dialogue - as in the memorable campfire scene where "straight" lawyer George Hanson (Jack Nicholson...
...meanwhile, continued a two-week-old offensive along the Kosovo border that has killed several civilians and forced thousands to flee. The government accuses rebels of keeping 10,000 civilians coralled as human shields. "We can hardly wait to get orders to move on and finish the job," said Col. Blagoja Markovski, an army spokesman, insisting that despite reports to the contrary morale is high...