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...more troops. The Pentagon has suggested that Brits replace the 1,300 Spanish soldiers now going home by expanding their occupation zone. Saying yes would require dispatching several thousand British soldiers to Iraq. Blair's strong instinct is to accede. But British officers fear that what one calls the "Fort Apache tactics" of American forces, most notably in Fallujah before last week's pullout, are starting to suck the country into a spiral of bloody resistance and bloodier response. General Mike Jackson, Chief of the General Staff, alluded to this two weeks ago when he said, "We must be able...
...licensed co-packing facilities. In 14 months, the company starting ringing up a profit, and the Fergusons were selling their salsa at festivals and bazaars, presenting their product to food stores and winning prizes, including the first-prize People's Preference Award at the International Zesty Food Show in Fort Worth, Texas, last September...
...clean sweep, Coach Barnaby's varsity netmen had little trouble in taking their match against a Fort Devens team yesterday at the Divinity Field courts by a score...
...Corps goes into camp annually in July, for one week, at some fort near Boston. Practice- is given in serving, aiming, and firing seacoast guns of latest model...
Conlon is a detective in New York City's 44th Precinct, in the South Bronx, a few blocks north of Yankee Stadium, not far from the legendary Fort Apache. At 39, he has a bit of that seedy-sexy Chris Noth charm to him--late Chris Noth, more Mr. Big than Detective Logan. But Conlon has another calling too: he's an author. His book, Blue Blood (Riverhead; 562 pages), is a memoir of his first seven years as a New York City cop, and it may be the best account ever written of life behind the badge...