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...least some of them may soon get a second chance.? According to Marine Col. Jim Frawley, a top advisor to the Bremer team, the U.S. plans to begin recruiting a new Iraqi security force by the end of this month. In an interview today with TIME and National Public Radio, Frawley said the initial all-volunteer, 40,000-man light infantry unit that will be deployed to provide basic security? throughout Iraq and will assist U.S. forces in clearing battlefield sites...
...hopes the corps will ultimately become the foundation of a new Iraqi standing army, though that goal is still years away. "The Iraqi military is like a tree that has been knocked down," Frawley says. "And instead of just pulling the old tree up, we want to plant new seeds." Frawley says the new force will be drawn from all regions of the country; unlike Saddam Hussein's Sunni-dominated? military,? the corps will be ethnically diverse. Membership will not be open to senior officers from the old Iraqi military or members of the Republican Guard - a group that...
...Frawley says that the U.S. now plans to give severance and retirement pay to those affected by Bremer's dissolution order and to allow former soldiers to participate in a U.N.-sponsored retraining program. Still, there are plenty in Iraq not willing to give up their guns. In western Iraq yesterday,? militants shot and killed a U.S. soldier at a checkpoint - the 8th American to die in the last two weeks. And with each new attack, U.S. plans to draw down the size of its forces seem more remote. "The attacks are getting more sophisticated," says Frawley. "They could...
...three years. Lucy Ricardo was, in those early I Love Lucy episodes, just a generic daffy housewife. Ethel (Vivian Vance), her neighbor and landlady, was a stock busybody. Desi Arnaz, as bandleader Ricky Ricardo, hadn't yet become one of the finest straight men in TV history. William Frawley, as Fred Mertz, seemed a Hollywood has-been in search of work, which...
...still the favorite to win the straw poll with as much as 40% of the vote, and has been getting ready to announce a new round of big-name endorsements to nail down the undecided. "I'm for Bob Dole because he's experienced," said Fort Lauderdale delegate Ruth Frawley. "We need a President who knows the ins and outs of Washington...