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Convicted. Hasan Akbar, 34, U.S. Army sergeant; of premeditated murder and attempted murder in a grenade and rifle attack that killed two military officers and wounded 14 other men in Kuwait in March 2003, as his division was preparing to move into Iraq; by a military jury in Fort Bragg, N.C. Prosecutors say Akbar, who faces the death penalty, told investigators his middle-of-the-night attack was motivated by his fears that U.S. soldiers would kill his fellow Muslims in Iraq...
Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger must now decide whether to go ahead with plans to spend $4.2 billion for 618 of the weapons. According to one Pentagon source, a classified Army study bolsters the critics' case against the Sergeant York, concluding that the high-tech guidance system performs no better than the systems it was designed to replace. Weinberger said the latest test was "the most realistic operational testing that we ever put a weapon system through," but he is waiting to see further reports before he makes up his mind. "For the good of the taxpayer and the soldier...
Public pressure has prompted Houston police to develop one of the nation's largest antiporn squads, with eleven officers, and has given Houston courts the dubious honor of apparently leading the U.S. in the number of porn cases tried (200) and the percentage of defendants convicted (91%). Sergeant William Brown, head of the city's vice squad, calls the antiporn crusade his city's "No. 1 priority." Says Brown: "Twenty years ago, all we saw was black-and-white movies. Now we're seeing live sex onstage. What's next? Sex with children...
...year, pronounced their own institution to be "the West Point of capitalism." Cadets learn leadership firsthand by giving orders to those they outrank in the cadet chain of command--their classmates as well as plebes. "It isn't easy ordering your roommate to shine his shoes," shrugs one cadet sergeant. "But you have...
...expected this week to endorse 80-year-old Félix Houphouët-Boigny's uncontested bid for a sixth five-year term as President. In Liberia (pop. 2 million), however, opposition politicians continue to allege fraud in the recent balloting that President Samuel K. Doe, a former army sergeant who first came to power in a 1980 coup, says gave him a popular mandate...