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...Joint Chiefs recommended to President John F. Kennedy that the U.S. attack Cuba within 36 hours and destroy the Soviet missiles we had detected, believing--as the CIA estimated--the nuclear warheads had not yet been delivered. It would be a huge attack: the first day's air strike would be 1,080 sorties. This would be followed by an invasion; we had 180,000 troops mobilized in southeastern U.S. ports. We didn't learn until 30 years later that the Soviets already had 162 warheads in Cuba, and Fidel Castro had already recommended to Nikita Khrushchev that nuclear weapons...
...disturbingly slow start and that failure to quickly provide the funding increase wouldn't help. "The White House should be strongly supporting that effort, given President Bush's compelling statement when he signed this bill into law," said Roemer, who last year served on the House-Senate joint inquiry on 9/11 that led to the creation of the commission. Roemer has gone so far as to draw comparisons with the $50 million provided to investigate the recent Columbia tragedy in which seven people died. "If we're looking at well over $11 million for that, we certainly should be looking...
...bill currently before the legislature’s Joint Committee on Public Safety would remove regulations governing placement of prisoners in solitary confinement...
Fenstermacher, a Harvard College Library worker, himself generated a joint protest by HUCTW and PSLM earlier this month when Harvard denied his request to have union representation at a regular performance review...
...burgled, and his badge, helmet and radio were stolen. A couple of years ago, says Master Detective Dennis Mangan of the Prince William County, Va. Police, "we wouldn't have thought anything about it. Now we look at things differently. We have a detective assigned to the Joint Terrorism Task Force, and anything that's remotely suspicious, we send them the report." Two days earlier, a Fairfax County policeman's car, containing his badge and jacket, had been stolen in Prince William County. Were these random events - or part of a sinister pattern? Within hours, the task force was circulating...