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...bopping right along. Twelve million people tune in each week, and the number of member stations has grown from 90 in 1970 to 395. Morning Edition, with its weekly audience of 4.8 million listeners, is public radio's top draw. Not even Garrison Keillor's new American Radio Company of the Air, which is produced by NPR's friendly rival, American Public Radio, commands such a large audience...
...military bases and installations. Cheney has appointed a task force to review the Pentagon's gold-plated strategic-weapons systems. But, notes Gordon Adams, respected director of the independent Defense Budget Project, "he did not even hint at slowing down any of them." These include the mobile MX/rail garrison missile project (budgeted for $2.8 billion), the B-2 Stealth bomber ($540 million apiece), and the Seawolf submarine ($3.5 billion apiece), not to mention the Strategic Defense Initiative (which the Administration wants to increase from $3.6 billion to $4.5 billion next year...
Aoun, who commands 15,000 troops, apparently underestimated the 10,000- strong Phalangists, who not only held their own but overran a naval base, a landing strip and an army garrison held by Aoun's forces...
Army regulations exclude women from combat duty, but that rule was stretched when 771 female soldiers took part in the invasion of Panama, including several MPs who were involved in firefights. One officer, Captain Linda Bray, directed her platoon against a Panamanian garrison at an attack-dog kennel. Though no Panamanians were killed, as was originally reported, shots were exchanged...
...were not as extensive or precipitate as Moore suggests, and many of the failed civic- improvement plans were begun years before the firings. But it may be that Moore's largest untruth involves his own screen persona. He would have us see him as a sort of Rust Belt Garrison Keillor, innocent but natively shrewd...