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...There's been five or six years of deterioration, virtually no training, massive draft resistance," says retired U.S. Army Lieut. General William Odom, a former director of the National Security Agency. "They have physically unhardened soldiers commanded by officers who have had to sell off most of their equipment just to keep the troops fed." A senior Pentagon official who visited Russia recently saw "missile units foraging in the countryside for food like it was the 1890s, not the 1990s...
...Wednesday evening, Karadzic declared that his points would go into effect within 24 hours. By Saturday, four civilians had been killed by Bosnian Serb snipers in Sarajevo, two American aid workers had been taken hostage by Bosnian Serbs outside Sarajevo, and a helicopter flying to pick up U.N. Commander Lieut. General Michael Rose was struck by Serb gunfire. Said U.N. spokesman Risley: "There is absolutely no change...
That is pretty much the way things are throughout Haiti two months after 21,000 American troops arrived to shove the regime of Lieut. General Raoul Cedras into exile. It is a measure of Haiti's desperation that the country's remarkable progress has been surpassed only by the magnitude of what remains to be done. Despite achievements that exceed all but the most optimistic expectations, Haiti is still bankrupt and riven by social disarray and class distrust. Even the President, who continues to sleep on a fold-up cot in his office, seems stunned by the problems. "This country...
...remain unwilling to use sufficient force to challenge Serb domination, and the Serbs and the Bosnians still refuse to agree on any settlement negotiated by mediators. The Serb reaction last week to U.N. scolding and NATO's minor bombing was almost contemptuous. In a telephone call to U.N. commander Lieut. General Sir Michael Rose's headquarters, Jovan Zametica, a senior Serb official, warned, "Don't mess with...
...interviews, South Korean intelligence personnel always accompany the defectors, and there is no way to check the accuracy of their stories. Some tales do not even ring true. Last year army Lieut. Kim Young Seon told debriefers that he knew of a coup attempt against Kim Il Sung and a nuclear accident that had claimed hundreds of lives. Most experts agree that in highly secretive North Korea, no low-ranking officer could have access to such information. Other defectors reveal secrets that sound plausible. Ahn Myung Jon, a military infiltration expert, said he used his skills to cross the heavily...