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...word. No. 1 was ``Arkansas? Sell it.'' Introduced by Letterman as ``an actual American hero,'' Dole astutely ended his 10-minute gig by acknowledging a friend in the audience, Frank Carafa, the former Army sergeant who had saved the future Senator's life by dragging the gravely wounded Lieut. Dole across a World War II battlefield. The emotional power was diminished only slightly by a by-product of the show's opening skit: Carafa, like the rest of the audience, was clutching a canned...
...space shuttle Discovery and its crew of six climbed into orbit, the dreams and aspirations of women also soared, in the person of Lieut. Colonel EILEEN COLLINS, 38. Collins is second in command and the first female to take over the controls of a NASA spaceship. She is carrying mementos of women aviators of the past, including a scarf that belonged to Amelia Earhart. Collins started taking flying lessons when she was 19 and in 1990 became the U.S. Air Force's second woman test pilot. She is not dwelling on the historic aspect of this flight: ``Maybe someday when...
Kazutoshi Ito, head of the National Land Agency's disaster division, told journalists that sending soldiers into local governments' jurisdiction would have smacked of ``a return to prewar militarism.'' But the commander of Japanese defense forces in the region, Lieut. General Yusuke Matsushima, brushed tears from his eyes when he apologized in public last week. ``People said, Why didn't you help us sooner?'' he recounted. ``I understand, but it was--the situation...
...brokered by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter seemed more elastic than ever. Renewed fighting broke out in the northwestern Bihac enclave, as rebel Muslims and Serbs from neighboring Croatia battled Bosnian government forces. The new violence came just as the new British commander of the U.N. troops in Bosnia, Lieut. General Rupert Smith, arrived in Sarajevo to take up his yearlong tour of duty. The Airborne Downed Overruling the recommendations of top military officers, Canadian Defense Minister David Collenette announced the disbanding of the elite 660-member Airborne Regiment. The minister's decision followed a television broadcast of two amateur...
...Tuesday night in Nishinomiya, Lieut. Tsutomu Fujii and 10 of his men from the Japanese Self-Defense Forces were digging away in such a ruin. They toiled through a frigid night lighted only by a full moon, while the daughter of the house stood nearby, sniffing back tears. Eventually they excavated her parents, gently placed their bodies on litters cobbled out of a broken door and a kitchen counter, and loaded them on a truck headed for a makeshift morgue. Lieut. Fujii had dug out seven corpses since morning, turning him into something of an instant expert. ``That couple seems...