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...five battleships back to port from the Arabian Sea. In a further effort to reduce tensions with its nuclear armed neighbor, India resumed diplomatic relations by selecting its new High Commissioner to Pakistan. While these moves coincided with the arrival in the region of U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Indian officials said they came in response to indications that terrorist infiltration into Indian-administered Kashmir had slowed or stopped in the past two weeks. Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's military ruler, welcomed the announcement of the measures but said "as long as [Indian] forces remain deployed the danger is not over...
...currently in military custody in South Carolina, is in a sort of legal limbo, where not even his lawyer knows exactly what his rights are. He has not yet been charged with a crime, and the government is in no hurry to do so; Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says they are more interested in what Padilla knows about al-Qaeda than in prosecuting...
...terror, particularly as Pakistan moves troops away from its western border with Afghanistan to the Kashmir front. U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage is scheduled to visit India and Pakistan this week to lean on both sides. Soon thereafter, it will be Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's turn to journey to the region and remind both parties that mutually assured destruction means just that...
This particular old soldier has the greatest respect for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld [NATION, May 20] but wonders if he should have the final say on axing the Crusader, the U.S. Army's mobile howitzer. Though not yet deployed, it is an important component of U.S. tactics for the 21st century. How ironic that Rumsfeld, who has been so skillful at overseeing the use of military force, is against a weapon that would give our ground troops a decisive edge on the battlefield of the future. Our nation's military successes in Afghanistan are as much a result of planning...
...like Abu Sayyaf and fundamentalist Muslim separatist groups with links to al-Qaeda's web of terror. Washington was in no mood to second-guess the Philippine army's efforts. "The Burnhams have not been well, and they lived in captivity a long time," said U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. "It seems to me that the attempt to save their lives was understandable...