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...years trying to tame him; Newt spent those years trying to get his father's attention. Bob was a Democrat; Newt, from childhood, a Republican. Bob was a disciplinarian; Newt, a rebel. Once when Bob was stationed in Orleans, France, he was awakened at 5 a.m. by some MPs, who had caught young Newt hitchhiking. Newt's first love, a girl named Jeannette, had just broken up with him, and he wanted to go plead with her to take him back. Furious, Gingrich's father grabbed him by the shoulders and hung him up on a wall hook...
When Evans Paul, the youthful mayor of Port-au-Prince who has been in hiding from the Haitian junta for the past three years, emerged to reclaim his office last Thursday, he brought along a kind of personal insurance policy: 40 American MPs and soldiers from the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division. Under their watchful gaze, the man who is second in popularity to President Jean- Bertrand Aristide was able to deliver an emotional speech celebrating the end of military rule and admonishing his fellow Haitians to exercise patience, mercy and restraint. His only rhetorical barb was reserved...
...ugly snapshots from Port-au-Prince did not convey the full picture of the occupation. Despite chaos in the streets, U.S. troops secured one objective after another with clocklike precision. On Monday, as Clinton announced he was lifting the bulk of the U.S. economic sanctions, American MPs moved into five of the capital's most notorious police precincts. That same day, the Coast Guard returned the first installment of what is hoped will be a reverse wave of returning refugees. Then on Tuesday, U.S. forces secured Haiti's simple white parliament building, reopening it to its democratically elected legislators...
...military to inquire about an enlistee's sexual orientation not only upon entering the armed forces but at any time during service. The new policy would put an end to witch hunts in the service by raising the standards required to launch an investigation, ending vigilante squads and MPs with cameras waiting outside off-base bars. The policy, said an official, would allow homosexuals in the military "to quietly have a life...
Army regulations exclude women from combat duty, but that rule was stretched when 771 female soldiers took part in the invasion of Panama, including several MPs who were involved in firefights. One officer, Captain Linda Bray, directed her platoon against a Panamanian garrison at an attack-dog kennel. Though no Panamanians were killed, as was originally reported, shots were exchanged...