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...House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, Representative Gerry Studds asked Baker if he could offer assurances that the U.S. would not attack Saddam Hussein's forces without consulting Congress. "No," said Baker. Studds then observed that if he were a soldier, "I think I would put my helmet on." Baker replied, with a smile, "I think their helmets...
...legions. The Senate dithers; Gaius Marius, a wealthy military man of low birth, has the energy but not the bloodline to save the situation. The author is interested in everything: how the city's sewers worked, how marriages were arranged, and how the horsehair plumes in a soldier's helmet could be detached for storage. She has drawn maps and even portraits of her characters, and supplied an encyclopedic glossary. The result, though dangerously overweight, is airport fiction at its best...
...soldiers volunteer that there are no bullets in their M-16s. Three days ago, while traveling by bus to the barracks where the Second Brigade is stationed, a staff sergeant in another company fired a 9-mm pistol round into his helmet, which was on the floor of the bus at the time. No one has an explanation for the incident. But after it, the troops were quickly ordered to turn in all but an emergency supply of ammunition...
...shares his carbine with two others, does not have a uniform or even a helmet to show he is a soldier. As if to compensate, he proudly wears mottled blue-black swirls on his arms and chest -- make-believe tattoos. His commander drew them with charcoal because no one in camp can wield tattoo needles properly. Other kids tease him about trying to act like a grownup and joke that he even has a girlfriend. But Khi Ha Won shakes his head with shy dignity. "Oh, no, impossible." He knows he is too young for that...
Chuck was never really cut out to be a professional hockey player. The day of his first game, when he was five years old and living in Atlanta, his mother sent him off to the rink wearing a football helmet. Cliff was out of town, and she didn't know any better. As Chuck himself jokes, "It was all downhill from there...