Word: persian
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...Staff Chairman Gen. John Shalikashvili told lawmakers today. Pre-empting President Clinton's formal request for the money next month as part of his 1996 budget, the nation?s top general painted a picture far worse than he did last fall, when costs from overseas deployments to Haiti and the Persian Gulf led to canceled training and sagging readiness in three of the Army's 12 divisions. Shalikashvili warned that if the new money doesn't arrive by Mar. 31, the Pentagon will be forced to take "drastic steps": all 10 remaining active-duty Army divisions would lose their top readiness...
...Over the Age of 65" -- even though 60% of all seniors wouldn't have paid a dime more in taxes. The tone of cool reason favored by the Founding Fathers is similarly lacking from this Jerry Falwell mailing: "American troops are again facing madman Saddam Hussein in the Persian Gulf -- but the enemy here at home may be much more dangerous! . . . Homosexuals are Bill Clinton's 1 allies...
...agency's challenge in the post-cold war era is to reinvent its role by fighting such new threats as terrorism, nuclear proliferation and organized crime. So far, the agency has scored some successes. Before the Persian Gulf War, intelligence provided by CIA spies prevented some 120 terrorists from launching attacks, say agency officials. Signal intercepts, along with CIA informants in China, have alerted U.S. officials to chemical weapons-related shipments the Beijing government has tried to make to Iran. The agency has also succeeded in placing agents in the Cali drug cartel...
About 2,000 U.S. veterans of the Persian Gulf War have filed a $1 billion civil suit against 20 prominent German companies, alleging that the firms helped Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein build a poison-gas arsenal. The German magazine Stern reports the action in a story to be published Thursday. The suit, Stern says, seeks $1 billion in damages for exposure to chemical weapons they believe left them with "Gulf War Syndrome," a mysterious collection of symptoms that includes chronic fatigue, headaches, rashes and painful limbs. Some of the German companies today called the suit groundless; no German firm...
...troops in Haiti will return by Dec. 1, and 7,800 of 29,000-member U.S. force in Kuwait will fly back by Dec. 22. Withdrawing the rest depends on the success of the missions to support Haitian democratic reform and contain Saddam Hussein in the Persian Gulf. TIME Pentagon correspondentMark Thompsonnotes the U.S. commander in Haiti, Gen. Hugh Shelton, mentioned last week that 9,000 troops there would come home -- so, commitment-wise, "he was more cutting edge than the White House...