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...spent 10 months protecting a Washington State military base. This year he will miss her first steps because his military-police unit has just been called up again. "I honestly didn't think it would happen this quickly," he said last week from the Sacramento armory where he commands the 270th Military Police Company. After only six months off, Echols' state unit returned to Pentagon command on Saturday. Within a month, a Pentagon official says, the 270th will probably be in Iraq, protecting U.S. troops and guarding Iraqi POWs...
...urgent job would be the search for hidden biological and chemical weapons. Special-forces teams from the Navy SEALs, the Air Force, the Marines and the Army's Delta Force would hunt down and secure such sites. Major General John Doesburg, who heads the Soldier Biological and Chemical Defense Command, which trains the forces that will decontaminate the sites, says his goal would be to secure all suspect weapons sites for inspections, rather than blow them up and risk spreading toxins in the air. "Our experience from the first Gulf War was that Saddam Hussein mixed things in his depots...
CHARGES DROPPED. Against PRENTICE SANDERS, 65, San Francisco's first black police chief, and his second-in-command, ALEX FAGAN SR., 52, who had been indicted, along with five others, for alleged conspiracy to cover up a bar fight involving off-duty police officers; by a superior-court judge, after district attorney Terence Hallinan said he did not have enough evidence to prosecute; in San Francisco...
...appears to be counting on the newly liberated Iraqis to turn him in. Sources tell TIME that the U.S. armed forces have developed pamphlets to be dropped over Iraq, warning citizens not to let Saddam escape. "We're counting on the Ceausescu method," says a senior planner at Central Command, which would lead a war on Iraq. He's referring to Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, executed by his subjects after his regime fell...
...Today's attack has clearly been designed to accomplish the quick elimination of Iraq's centers of power and their channels of command and communication in order to signal to Iraq's armed forces that resistance is futile. On Thursday morning, General Tommy Franks gave Iraq's leaders, and their subordinates, notice that he knows where they live. His airforce will begin eliminating Iraq's air defenses and then pulverizing the buildings that house the regime's political, security and military apparatuses, systematically cutting the tendons and sinews that hold together Saddam's power...