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Born in Waukeegan, Ill., in 1920, Ford graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1942. He served in the United States Army Signal Corps and the Office of Strategic Services, forerunner to the Central Intelligence Agency, doing intelligence work in Germany, studying the German resistance and visiting the liberated concentration camp at Dachow...
...Hussein had "sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." Even though Bush cited the British government as the source in his statement, he conveyed a falsehood. It was Bush, not the CIA, who deceived Americans; it is he and his Administration that must be held accountable. GREG COX Wheaton, Ill...
...member but is often asked to help out financially, has its own commitments in central Africa and last week declined to underwrite a Liberian operation. It says it spends $165 million a year on keeping troops in Burundi alone. And most West African armies are small and ill equipped. "The resources are just so minute compared to other regions," says Eric G. Berman, an expert in African peacekeeping at Brown University in Rhode Island. "It's easy [for the U.S.] to point the finger and say, 'Well, we trained you and what are you doing?' But that's mistaking...
...estimates that "we will probably come close to a doubling of the overall standard of living throughout the world in a generation." The globe's second-most-powerful economy in 2020? China. Prediction No. 2: The U.S. doctrine of preemptive strikes and increasing unilateralism will pump up the ill feeling between itself and so-called orderly nations like France and Germany. Over the next five years, Schwartz says, American military forces will pull out of almost all their overseas bases, as massive standing deployments give way to a high-tech global police corps calling on small numbers of special forces...
Massachusetts law stipulates that a police officer may commit an individual suspected to be mentally ill to hospitalization against his or her will only in an emergency situation—if the officer suspects that the individual is a hazard to himself or herself, or to others...