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HARRY CONDE HAD HAD ENOUGH. WHEN A 13-YEAR-old reached into the Marine gunnery sergeant's humvee on a busy Mogadishu street and snatched the prescription sunglasses from his face last February, the 33-year-old native of Puerto Rico wheeled and shot the boy in the stomach, also wounding a bystander. He claimed self-defense, arguing that the constant threat of attack from brazen youths in the lawless Somali capital had unnerved him. A court-martial found Conde guilty of aggravated assault, stripped him of his rank and imposed a $1,706 fine. Twelve thousand U.S. servicemen remain...
Johnson has been a police officer for nearly four decades. He quietly worked his way up through the ranks, gaining promotion in sergeant in the Boston police force in 1975, according to his former collage...
...Howard's Rikki Roma, the acting is as unfulfilling as the plot. Roma's ferocity, acted with sultry urbanity, and her sharp Chanel-esque garb provide the only brightness on a stage populated by unengaging and apparently unengaged characters (typified by the thoroughly uncommitted acting of Steve Wardell playing Sergeant Baylen. Thankfully, his part is quite small...
Bill Clinton asked Americans to answer the call -- instead, they're placing calls. U.S. citizens are phoning their Senators at a rate more than twice that of last year. Figures from the office of the Senate sergeant at arms show that from Jan. 1 to Feb. 4 there were 4.2 million calls to the Senate this year, in contrast to 1.9 million during that same period...
American troops, shaken by the death of another one of their own when a vehicle hit a land mine, are more than ready to leave. Fallout continues from an incident five weeks ago: Gunnery Sergeant Harry Conde, infuriated when his prescription sunglasses were stripped off by a Somali youth, shot the boy in the abdomen. A military court is now considering whether he used "excessive force...