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...Indian Ocean in a 856-foot tanker, the Maersk Rhode Island. A 12-strong Force Protection team was tapped to travel on that. Involved in prepo for decades, the Norfolk, VA-based shipper last January also won a deal estimated at $316 million to deliver defense equipment, mail and PX merchandise globally...
Alexandria, Va. Behind an Old Town fish-and-chips restaurant displaying a pirate flag is an unmarked door with a blue light denoting the entrance to PX. After you ring the bell, a host's eyes appear in a peephole, and a voice beckons you upstairs?or denies your entry because the place holds only 30 people. Inside, the bar is decked out with mirrored walls and glass chandeliers. Just like in the 1920s (the bar's era of inspiration), bartenders hand-make cocktail mixers, including the tonic water, bitters and fresh-squeezed juice. eamonnsdublinchipper.com...
...telephones. Signs that the battle is approaching multiply by the day: the electrified fence along the border has tank doorways cut through it. The U.N. border observers are pulling out, and civilian officials are pulling back. At the various base camps, soldiers can wait in line at the PX for two hours just to buy razor blades and batteries. Wild dogs roam the perimeter of the camps, keeping the rats at bay. And the sandstorms are like a shroud that stings; taking a shower is a waste of time since you're filthy again in five minutes...
...American post exchange in Frankfurt is reserved for U.S. servicemen and their dependents, and patrons must pass through a military-police checkpoint to enter. No such restrictions apply to the vicinity around the PX, however, and it was there last week that terrorists struck. As customers went about their pre-Thanksgiving shopping, a bomb hidden in a car parked about 250 yards from the PX exploded, injuring 35 people, most of them Americans. The attack was the 19th this year against U.S. military posts in West Germany. On Aug. 8, two Americans were killed and 20 injured at the Rhein...
Buckley provided evidence of that earlier this year while vacationing aboard a yacht off the Pacific island of Bora-Bora. With the help of an Epson PX-8 lap-size machine, he fired off a 7,500-word draft of a children's book in two hours, a feat that can be compared with writing a college term paper during lunch break and getting it published. The Temptation of Wilfred Malachey (Workman, $10.95) is a morality tale for children from eight to 13, in which a demonical IBM 4341 mainframe teaches a New England prep-school student that computing...