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...wake of the accident, Rother's company commander and platoon leader have been relieved of their commands. Three more of the lance corporal's superiors face courts-martial for dereliction of duty and other charges. Perhaps the proceedings will answer some of the unsettling questions surrounding the case. Why wasn't Rother assigned a partner during the nocturnal exercises? Why did almost two days pass before Rother was reported missing? Was the required after-actions roll call performed promptly? How could Rother's fellow Marines possibly have left him behind? "Accountability for your Marines," says corps spokesman Lieut. Colonel Fred...
...Gorbachevs came to Manhattan, Charles and Di with substance and multiple warheads. They gave their regards to Broadway and Bloomingdale's and proved that all it takes to keep traffic moving in New York is the near imposition of martial law: 6,600 of the city's finest, plus the peacekeeping forces of the U.N., the FBI, the FAA, the KGB, the Secret Service and the Coast Guard. Like tourists in for the holidays, the Soviet Union's First Couple took in all the right places, both high (the World Trade Center's 107th-floor observation deck) and low (Times...
...study. Janet tends the little garden. Incredibly, he has never set foot on the terrace, for the man whose Foundation Trilogy centers on a Galactic Empire and ( interplanetary voyages is terrified of heights. He has flown only once: "It was in the Army, and to refuse meant a court-martial." Acrophobia has its drawbacks: he does not visit foreign cities, or even many domestic ones. Fourteen honorary degrees have come his way; he has turned down many others because he hates to travel to any college or university beyond a 400-mile limit from New York City. But this unwillingness...
...opposition Islamic Democratic Alliance, as is the government of Punjab, the most populous province. Bhutto is further hobbled by promises made to keep the armed forces in their barracks. Cutting military expenditures, which consume 40% of the budget, is not feasible, Bhutto says, "unless you want to invite in martial...
Chang testified that, after practicing martial arts in a children's play-ground, he fell asleep on a "wooden board supported by two springs." He said Blair woke him and told him to move--and although he obeyed, the officer harassed him, twisting his arm behind his back and slamming him against a police...