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...found that his antiwar sign had been torched by a primitive incendiary device. Prowar demonstrators in another Missouri town attacked a car draped with a peace sign. They shoved flagpoles through the windows and shouted, "Commie faggots!" at the two men inside. At the Defense Language Institute at Fort Ord in California, a Russian instructor's car was towed off the parking lot after the decorated Vietnam War veteran refused to remove PEACE IS PATRIOTIC and SAY NO TO WAR signs from the window of his van. The military said they were simply carrying out regulations requiring a permit...
Calling the aid a "Fund for Democracy," Bush said Nicaragua should get $500 million and Panama $570 million. To pay for it, the Pentagon would postpone projects at Fort Ord, Calif., Fort Knox, Ky., and Fort Hood, Texas, delay repairing the damaged battleship Iowa and use savings from a hiring freeze. Bush said Congress should vote the aid package by April 6. It is expected to do so, but only after enlarging the pot. Since the President has opened the military vault, Congress presumably will look for the extra cash at the Pentagon...
...artillery batteries from Fort Ord, Calif.--a total of 141 soldiers--were pulled out Monday, said White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater. One planeload of troops arrived at Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio late Monday...
TASK FORCE ATLANTIC. Made up of 82nd Airborne Division paratroopers from Fort Bragg, N.C., and Seventh Infantry troops from Fort Ord, Calif., backed by special units, it raced to secure vital facilities at the Caribbean end of the canal, near Colon. It took over Madden Dam, which stores water used to raise and lower ships in the canal's locks, and seized control of the electrical distribution center at Cerro Tigre. The task force encountered stiff resistance from a P.D.F. naval infantry unit on the northern coast. This force also freed 48 P.D.F. prisoners at Gamboa prison...
...felt no compulsion to visit Colombia, since he subscribes to the you've-seen-one-jungle-you've-seen-them-all philosophy. Clancy finds it routine that he learned all that he needed to know about the Army's light- fighters during a three-day visit to Fort Ord, Calif. "A warrior is a warrior," Clancy insists, using a favorite term of praise, "whether they're light infantrymen, submariners, fighter pilots or whatever. The way they express themselves may be different, but the personality types are pretty much the same...