Word: jeaned
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...invasion ultimately would require 15,000 to 20,000 U.S. troops and a six-month American presence, according to Leon Edney, the retired Navy admiral who, as commander of all U.S. Atlantic forces, was responsible for Haiti when President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was overthrown nearly three years ago. Haiti's military "hardly warrants the name," a Pentagon planner says; its 7,500 troops are ill-trained and poorly equipped, and they are expected to offer little overt resistance. In all likelihood U.S. forces would quickly take control of the handful of Haitian armored vehicles, planes, boats and guns. "The Haitians...
...backing into an invasion almost out of desperation. "No doubt about it," said one senior Pentagon official, "the stakes have gone up because of Panama's decision. We need to get ourselves into position." On Friday, Clinton issued another veiled warning to the military clique that ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in September 1991. "I think the conduct of the military leaders will have more than anything else to do with what options are considered when," said Clinton. "And their conduct has not been good...
...member Prineville, Oregon, Hotshots. That team included Scott Blecha, 27, a graduate of the Oregon Institute of Technology and a four-year veteran of the Marine Corps. who planned to quit fighting fires after this summer and seek a master's degree in engineering. Also on board was Bonnie Jean Holtby, 21, who had run track and played basketball in high school. And there was Levi J. Brinkley, 22, who phoned his mother back in Oregon to tell her that he and his Prineville colleagues had been to hell -- a fire in California -- and were now headed for heaven...
...swept from 50 acres to 2,000, subsided enough to let rescuers in, the bodies of four women and eight men were discovered, most of them just below the ridge. The bodies of two more men were found two days later. Among the 14 dead were Scott Blecha, Bonnie Jean Holtby, Levi J. Brinkley and six of their Prineville Hotshots colleagues...
...nations are growing simultaneously for the first time in years, the U.S. has recorded the best combination of steady production growth, rising employment and low inflation. The President also seized the chance to get better acquainted with some of his peers. Among them, Prime Ministers Silvio Berlusconi of Italy, Jean Chretien of Canada and Tomiichi Murayama of Japan were coming for the first time. In a meeting with Clinton before the summit, Murayama (who was hospitalized briefly for fatigue and diarrhea) promised to maintain policies of stimulating consumption, as the U.S. and other trade partners have been urging, to spur...