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...Chad. The officers are also reported to be upset about the growth of the "people's army," a politicized militia whose existence threatens the armed forces' influence. Last month Libyan air force planes bombed an army base in Benghazi after all or part of the garrison mutinied. Reports from foreign residents say that about 20 soldiers were killed. But the biggest disruption occurred on March 25 when a mysterious explosion heavily damaged the army's arms and ammunition depot at El Abjar, outside Benghazi. Western observers believe the destruction at El Abjar, the main supply base...
Bradley climbed the flagpole in San Francisco again later last month--to replace the Confederate flag with the historic 33-star Fort Sumter garrison flag, donated to the city to celebrate the removal of the flag. Mayor Dianne Feinstein ordered that flag removed. Later, under recommendation of Wallace Levine, head of the Veterans Affairs Council, the Mayor agreed to fly the "California Hundred" flag, in honor of the first 100 California Volunteers who paid their way east to fight against slaveowners...
...floating barracks, each housing up to 930 men. The facilities have mess halls, gymnasiums and a squash court; they purify their own water and generate their own electricity. Says Major General Keith Spacie, commander of the 4,000-to 5,000-man British force: "Port Stanley is not a garrison town. We have got off the Falklanders' backs so they can lead as normal a life as possible...
...along Nicaragua's southern border with Costa Rica, the jungle hamlet of San Juan del Norte has taken on a symbolic importance well beyond its dubious strategic value. After three days of pitched battle two weeks ago, contra guerrillas from the Democratic Revolutionary Alliance (ARDE) overwhelmed the Sandinista garrison in the town and scored their first major military victory. After a few uneasy days of quiet, Nicaraguan troops counterattacked last week. As several hundred soldiers advanced, planes and helicopters swooped down and bombed the town. The guerrillas quickly slipped back into the jungle, leaving the smoking remains...
...this unprecedented attack on the country's traditions of free and open debate is national security. But, as Lecturer on the Core Program Sissela Bok has observed, such efforts to suppress information usually weaken a democratic society--rather than strengthen it. "Short of turning an open society into a garrison state," she wrote recently in the Crimson, "it will simply not be possible to restrict trade, scholarship, scientific exchanges, publication and news reporting enough to achieve the desired society...