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At a World War II training base of Britain's Royal Marines, the commanding officer ends his tirade against officers who had seen to their own comfort before that of their men with a purely rhetorical "Any questions?" One moderately adipose and overage (36) lieutenant does have an inquiry. "Would...
California Governor PETE WILSON has launched an official investigation of the National Guard's response during the Los Angeles riots last month. No wonder: he called up the Guard at 9 p.m. on the first night of rioting, as hundreds of fires burned. But by 2 p.m. the following day...
As local self-help groups struggled to clear the rubble in South Central and Peter Ueberroth, chairman of a newly formed Rebuild Los Angeles Committee, sought to persuade Japanese as well as U.S. companies to re-enter the sadly charred inner city, units of the 10,000 U.S. troops that...
During the next 48 hours, fearsome anarchy spread along the streets and freeways of a city designed around the car and free mobility. Gangs attacked luckless drivers, beating and robbing and leaving them sprawled on the roadways. Hovering news helicopters captured several of these assaults; footage rivaling the King video...
But Ashdown grew restless with diplomatic life. According to friends, guilt about social ills back home got the better of him. In the military he had found many fellow Marines who were virtually illiterate. As he puts it, "Some were tougher, some stronger, some more intelligent, some more decent. Yet...