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Kennedy School of Government Professor Ricardo Hausmann will become the next chief of the Center for International Development (CID), the University announced today...
...Lieut. General David McKiernan, head of the U.S. military's land component, is ordered to move his headquarters to Florida, removing from Iraq hundreds of intelligence officers. Some U.S. intelligence officials view the loss of these assets as the gravest error in the battle against the insurgency. General Ricardo Sanchez, who takes over, has to restart intelligence gathering essentially from scratch...
...been keeping track of the situation on the ground. "Allowing McKiernan to leave was the worst decision of the war," says one of his superiors. (The decision, he says, was Franks'.) "We replaced an operational force with a tactical force, which meant generals were replaced by colonels." Major General Ricardo Sanchez, a relatively junior commander and a recent arrival in Iraq, was put in charge. "After McKiernan left, we had fewer than 30 intelligence officers trying to figure who the enemy was," says a top-ranking military official who was in Iraq at the time. "We were starting from scratch...
...contested than rugged and isolated northern Morazán province. The area is now a stronghold for antigovernment rebels, but they won it at a high cost. Years of fighting have devastated once thriving villages. Electrical lines hang limply from wooden poles, and telephone service is just a memory. Correspondent Ricardo Chavira returned last week from a rare tour of the area with officials of the People's Revolutionary Army (E.R.P.), the most powerful faction within the five-member Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.). Chavira's report...
...helicoptered to Managua, where, unshaven and haggard, he made a brief statement to the press: "My name is Gene Hasenfus. I come from Marinette, Wis. I was captured yesterday in southern Nicaragua. Thank you." He was then whisked away to detention and interrogated at El Chipote prison. Captain Ricardo Wheelock, chief of army intelligence, proudly called Hasenfus the Nicaraguans' first U.S. "prisoner...