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...million soldiers from the People's Liberation Army. But the 2.9 million left still operate more like a force trained to envelop an enemy with sheer numbers than one capable of responding rapidly with 21st century firepower. After watching a whole new way of warfare in the Persian Gulf, senior officers went on a buying spree. They came home last year with 50 Russian attack jets, two Russian destroyers, four diesel submarines and 70 fighter planes...
...keep drugs from streaming across the border into the U.S. "It would be difficult to maintain the same level of cooperation when one has received a slap in the face," said Mexican Ambassador Jesus Silva Herzog. The Mexican government brought another trophy to the bargaining table Thursday by capturing Gulf Cartel leader Oscar Malherbe de Leon, head of a major smuggling operation, and destroying a ton of cocaine seized by the Mexican navy on the Yucatan resort island of Cozumel. In announcing the recertification, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright warned today that the decision was made "with firm expectations...
...keep drugs from streaming across the border into the U.S. "It would be difficult to maintain the same level of cooperation when one has received a slap in the face," said Mexican Ambassador Jesus Silva Herzog. The Mexican government brought another trophy to the bargaining table Thursday by capturing Gulf Cartel leader Oscar Malherbe de Leon, head of a major smuggling operation, and destroying a ton of cocaine seized by the Mexican navy on the Yucatan resort island of Cozumel. In announcing the recertification, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright warned today that the decision was made "with firm expectations...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: President Clinton ordered an investigation into a report that the Army blew up an Iraqi ammunitions dump despite a CIA warning that it might contain chemical weapons -- then covered up what it had known when Gulf War veterans began to complain of serious health problems. If confirmed, this would indicate that for the first time that negligence by the CIA and U.S. military was a factor in exposing veterans to poison gas during the Gulf War. The Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses has 60 days to examine the report, made public yesterday. While the Pentagon...
...bloody hazing took place. He commanded the 2nd Force Service Support Group at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, from June 1990 to July 1991. An aide says Krulak had no knowledge of such brutality, adding that the general spent part of that time in the Middle East during the Gulf War and had a pair of lower-ranking officers between him and those who pounded pins into their fellow Marines' chests...