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...colleagues, Army Lieut. Colonel Wayne Gillespie seemed a straight-arrow soldier. A West Point graduate, he had served tours in West Germany and Viet Nam. Since 1982 Gillespie, 46, has been assigned to the Army Materiel Command in Alexandria, Va., where he worked on military projects with the U.S.'s NATO allies. But, according to FBI agents who arrested him last week, he was also part of a seven-member smuggling ring that conspired to ship antitank missiles to Iran, a country that has not legally received U.S. weapons since the takeover by Ayatullah Khomeini...
...then it was just after noon, the deadline set by the police for the completion of the funeral. Lieut. Colonel Gert Nel, the police commandant, warned the crowd over a loudspeaker, "You are acting against the law. You must disperse. When the convoy starts moving you must all be in vehicles. No processions and no bicycles should be used." But there were no buses to take the mourners to the cemetery. Tutu pleaded with the colonel for buses. Otherwise, he warned, the crowd might turn ugly and there would be bloodshed. The colonel said he could not promise enough transportation...
...purpose of overloading cadets, says History Professor Lieut. Colonel Robert Doughty, is to "teach them to prioritize under stress, to learn what is important and what is not." The pressure also teaches selflessness by creating a kind of foxhole camaraderie in the corps. "Cooperate and graduate" is an unofficial cadet motto. The deep bonding between cadets has survived the entry of women, who now make up 11% of the corps of cadets. "At first, a lot of guys say, 'What are women doing here?' " says Cadet Borgerding. "But they become buddies...
...Angeles water and power got off lightly. The logic bomb had not disrupted the intricate systems that control the flow of water and electricity to the service's 1.2 million customers. Says Lieut. Fred Reno, the officer in charge of the case: "A lot of customers in the city of Los Angeles could have been affected. That really would have been a disaster...
Ronald Reagan deplores the term Star Wars to describe his Strategic Defense Initiative. So does retired Army Lieut. General Daniel Graham, one of the originators of the idea to build a defensive shield against nuclear missiles, even though his organization, High Frontier, uses the words in a new pro-SDI television commercial. George Lucas, creator of the Star Wars movie trilogy, hates the usage most of all. His company, Lucasfilm, asked a Washington federal district court to enjoin the TV spot on the ground that it damages a valuable trademark (film revenues to date: $1.3 billion) by taking Star Wars...