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...school at Fort Huachuca in Arizona, but the introductory curriculum he would have taken was less suited to a high-level strategic thinker than to that person's secretary. Once back in Michigan, as an E-5 specialist -- the equivalent of a sergeant -- with a G-2, or security, section of a peacetime Reserve unit, there would have been little call for the arcane arts he had learned. A soldier in the current equivalent of his unit assesses Koernke's position as that of "a glorified clerk," concerned mostly with processing security clearances...
...jets and tanks. No police report has fully explained the March subway gassing and May's thwarted attack on Shinjuku station. Ikuo Hayashi, a doctor who admitted planting gas on one of the Tokyo trains, was quoted in newspapers as saying the goal was to wipe out the Kasumigaseki section of Tokyo, where many government offices are located. "The attack was launched so that the guru's prophecy could come true," Hayashi reportedly told interrogators...
...Janesville: "I'm really angry about the Congress wanting to cut taxes when we have a debt like this. We are so much better off than anybody in the world. I just don't think it would hurt us to not cut taxes right now." In Beloit-the Democratic section of the district that Neumann did not carry-the sentiment was even more heated. "You've been voting to hurt other people," said Bill Hallstrom, a Beloit engineer. "You voted for a tax cut for the rich-you're giving them a break at the expense of the poor." Elkhorn...
...have followed the comic strip For Better or For Worse since its inception, and I was saddened when the dog Farley died, as you noted in the tongue-in-cheek Milestoons section [CHRONICLES, May 22]. In fact, I wept at his demise and wondered why his owners, the Paftersons, did not. They looked worried and scared, but not one tear was shed for the hero that saved their little girl's life! Sara Hughes Midland, Michigan...
...devastating earthquake struck Sakhalin Island in Russia's far east, killing perhaps as many as 2,000 of 3,000 people living in the tiny oil-drilling town of Neftegorsk. The violent quake, 7.5 on the Richter scale, flattened the shoddy Soviet-built apartment blocks; in a section of town, one of the few structures still standing was a statue of Lenin. Subfreezing nighttime temperatures complicated rescue efforts, and thick offshore ice kept a hospital ship from reaching Sakhalin...