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...deployed its clandestine units of spies in Panama, the Persian Gulf and Somalia, among other places. The U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force operatives, who number nearly 1,000 (compared with the CIA's 5,000), will be centralized by October under the existing Defense Intelligence Agency, an outfit that for the most part analyzes the data collected by the CIA, the Pentagon's satellites and defense attaches at U.S. embassies. Centralized discipline is designed to correct past problems of rogue agentry and wasteful spending...
...that an end to obsolete limits on production will better position trade-savvy farmers to compete in markets overseas. Democrat Kent Conrad has warned of a "disaster" if the cuts are indiscriminate. But Bill Pietsch, vice president of the North Dakota Farm Bureau in Fargo, a Republican-tilted outfit, puts it this way: "Our people will swear. We expect our Senators to swear. But as these payments are reduced, most of North Dakota will continue to be farmed...
...driver was a big, red-faced staff sergeant who spoke rarely and was nearly deaf. His name was Peise. Mother eventually told me that Peise was in Father's outfit and that Father had asked him to pick us up after the truck was ordered westward. What Peise's real mission was -- if any -- no one knew. It seemed strange that he had orders to go west when the Wehrmacht needed every man in the east. The sergeant shed no light on the question. He drove the truck with singular determination, fatigue cap pushed into his neck, submachine gun slung...
...message of strength, dignity and empowerment to the African American community -- especially to our youth." This was in response to an earlier ad, declaring Panther "a two-hour lie," that was placed in Daily Variety by David Horowitz's Center for the Study of Popular Culture, a neoconservative outfit in Los Angeles. Horowitz, a reformed leftie who worked for the Panthers in the '70s, now believes that "the overwhelming impact of the Panthers was negative." And he fears Panther will have a toxic effect: "I fully expect that there will be people who will die because of this film...
...than an experiment in new-found freedom, though. Many people think it adds color (punintended) to their daily lives. Just imagine how many more wardrobe combinations a head of yellow hair allows: Now the green sweater and the orange pants will not clash because the vivid yellow distributes the outfit across the color spectrum more evenly. Sure...