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...moment that Salt Lake City and millions of sports fans worldwide had been waiting for: the opening of the biggest Winter Olympic Games ever. The event began with the customary fanfare but unprecedented levels of security. While F-16 fighters patrolled the skies, more than 15,000 security personnel were deployed, including FBI officers and marksmen on skiing pistes and at all sporting venues. As the Olympic flame arrived at the Rice-Eccles Olympic Stadium, 3 billion television viewers tuned...
...Americans have arrived to help. Special Forces personnel will soon begin patrolling Basilan island along with the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). Carrying only side arms, they're there as observers to guide the AFP to victory. Col. Fridovich spoke with TIME last week at AFP Southern Command headquarters...
...TIME: When will U.S. personnel begin joining their Philippine counterparts on patrol...
...object in sports behind the jai-alai ball. “Bad,” as O’Connor and her teammates call it, is a game of nuance, strategy and superhuman agility, played most competitively in Southeast Asia and Denmark. Badminton was first observed by British army personnel in occupied India circa 1850, where—called “Poona”—it had existed for centuries. Entranced by the game, the soldiers brought it home. As lore has it, one afternoon the Duke of Beaufort was having a party at his estate, named...
...have to play better than we did tonight,” Wilson said. “But we have the personnel...