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...reluctant to say that publicly because it might make them seem unresponsive to the anguish of families still uncertain about the fate of their loved ones -- and because they just might be wrong. An unreleased 1986 report by Lieut. General Eugene Tighe, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), concluded that some MIAs could be alive...
...response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group, the Defense Intelligence Agency last week released an internal estimate of 100,000 Iraqi soldiers killed, 300,000 wounded. But DIA said those figures had an "error factor of 50% or higher" -- to a statistician, a grotesque number. The Pentagon has little wish to refine its figures either. It has strained to avoid both the derision aroused by the body counts announced during the Vietnam War and anything that might sound like a callous boast. Some other assessments indicate the U.S. figures...
...Wamba-Dia Wamba, professor at the University of Dares Salaam in Tanzania and former visiting scholar at Harvard, was the guest speaker of last night's talk entitled "The Crisis of Nation Building in Africa." The talk, sponsored by the African Students Association, is one several events designed to inform the Harvard community about the African continent...
...Wamba-Dia Wamba, professor at the University of Dares Salaam in Tanzania and former visiting scholar at Harvard, was the guest speaker of last night's talk entitled "The Crisis of Nation Building in Africa." The talk, sponsored by the African Students Association, is one of several events designed to inform the Harvard community about the African continent...
...They said, `Please get food! Please get water!Please help us! They're looting. We've seen policelooting. We've seen National Guard looting.There's no law and order here," said GaryWilliams, a reporter for the San Juan daily ElNuevo Dia...