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JOHN FRIEDEN (D) District 2 (East--Topeka; Leavenworth; Pittsburg...
...total U.S. ground Army of 1.1 million soldiers now only the eighth largest in the world, senior military officers believe they will have to harness America's technological lead in information processing and communications in order to fight future battles. During a simulated war game last May at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, a 20,000-man infantry division, outfitted with sophisticated information-processing equipment and smart weapons the Army hopes to have fully deployed by the year 2010, was pitted against a North Korean army corps three times its size. With computers that pass combat orders quickly and sensors that...
...three to eight times as long as their cocaine counterparts for comparable amounts. Willie Aikens, a former first baseman for the Kansas City Royals, is a case in point. Convicted last year of selling 50 grams of crack, he is now doing 15 years in the federal prison at Leavenworth; had he sold cocaine instead, his sentence would be closer to two years. The commission's bottom line: "Issues of 'fairness' or 'just punishment' result when relatively low-level crack retailers receive higher sentences than the wholesale-level cocaine dealer from whom the crack seller originally purchased the powder...
Perhaps Duran developed his sense of humor, as well as his animosity for the President, while staying at the lovely Leavenworth military prison for the last few years...
...parents fled anti-Tutsi pogroms. He grew up in a refugee camp. After high school, he became a guerrilla fighter in the Ugandan rebel army, where he rose to chief of military intelligence. When the R.P.F. invaded Rwanda in 1990, Kagame was taking an officers' course at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The assault foundered when Major General Fred Rwigyema was killed. Kagame flew back to take charge. "Hundreds had died or deserted," recalls Aloysia Inyumba, now Minister for Women. "Kagame asked us, 'Who is going on with me? Fighting is not about guns. It's not about territory...