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Bringing golf clubs and hiking boots, the President and his family flew into Wyoming's gorgeous Teton mountain range for a long-anticipated-and surely welcome-vacation. The First Family has settled into a lavishly rustic 8,000-sq.-ft. house that belongs to West Virginia Senator Jay Rockefeller-one of only a handful of Clinton's political soulmates in this staunchly Republican state...
Future warfare, in fact, may look like today's science-fiction thrillers. "One day national leaders will fight out virtual wars before they decide to go to war at all," predicts Lieut. General Jay Garner, head of the Army's Space and Strategic Defense Command. Some futurists take it a step further. Countries will have their computers fight simulated wars instead of actual battles to decide who wins. Garner is not willing to go that far. "I have a hard time visualizing that warfare will be a video game devoid of pain...
...Reported by Edward Barnes/Sisak, Jay Branegan/Brussels, Massimo Calabresi/Vienna, Dean Fischer/Washington, Tala Skari/Paris, Alexandra Stiglmayer/Zagreb and Bruce van Voorst/Bonn
...their property to nonprofit land trusts, thus ensuring that scenic vistas and traditional uses will be preserved. Last year the Montana Land Reliance helped set up 39 such trusts, up from just eight in 1990. And if Clinton manages to get away on vacation (as a guest of Senator Jay Rockefeller), he'll be staying near land the Rockefeller family donated to the U.S. for preservation. Giving away land may prove to be the ultimate way of keeping it intact...
...interview with talk show host Jay Leno, Operation Dumbo Drop star Danny Glover said that the U.S. military maintained good relations with Vietnamese mountain villages during the war by air-dropping elephants to them...