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...forest-covered mountains of northern Galilee were burning today, after missile strikes from Hizballah hit several villages and kibbutzim along the border in what Israeli Northern Command officers said was a well-coordinated attack. Multiple Katyusha rocket attacks, as well as several cross-border incursions by Hizballah fighters, left at least seven Israeli soldiers killed, a tank destroyed, two soldiers injured and two infantrymen held captive by Hizballah...
...Still, back when wife roles were solid ones, Allyson was The Wife. But the movies weren't always glaringly sunny. Her three films with James Stewart tested Allyson's innate chipperness. In Strategic Air Command, a hymn to '50s flyboys, her co-respondent is a bomber, which almost takes Stewart to his death. She perseveres and sees to it that he does too. In The Stratton Story Stewart loses a leg; in The Glenn Miller Story he loses his life. She must support him, literally and emotionally, in the first; and in the second, she shows, with great delicacy...
...have emboldened those regimes in their quest to obtain nuclear weapons while constraining the U.S. military's ability to deter them. "We put three countries on notice--Iraq, Iran and North Korea--and we attacked one of them pre-emptively," says retired Marine Corps General Joseph Hoar, who commanded the U.S. Central Command from 1991 to '94. "Now we find that was a put-up job. Meanwhile, North Korea and Iran have chosen different routes than what we wanted them to take...
...Bradley. Working together, the BAE--Red River team increased output from 1.5 to 4 units per shift. In many Army facilities, the physical work, or "touch labor," is done by military staff, "but the crucial technical support is private industry," says Griffin of the Army Matériel Command. There are more than 300 such partnerships throughout the Army, and Griffin says they accounted for $225 million in cost savings last year alone...
...course, what works in a humvee repair shop may not translate to an air-conditioned cubicle. "While cost savings are easier to achieve and see in a production facility, how do we measure success in the legal department?" asks Ron Davis, a civilian executive at the Army Matériel Command. "We can't use 'cases lost.' But we could look at speeding up how long it takes to produce a paper. Or how we might be able to get a recruit into the system faster...