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...Iraqis rolled in). The invasion has made the government more loudly determined than ever to reach that goal -- but getting there will probably prove impossible. After a whirlwind shopping spree in the Far East, a Sabah woman turned up at the airport last week with 40 servants in tow. "I have replaced my Arabs with Asians," she said proudly. She will not be the last...
...February 1991 study: during a training exercise, one unit had only 40% of the chemical-warfare equipment it needed; a helicopter battalion was unable to practice because it was given only two usable antitank missiles for live-fire exercises; and an infantry battalion received only 19 of the 60 TOW missiles it had requested. All too often, the GAO reported, Guard units have failed to acquire combat skills because their training exercises are so unrealistic. Most disheartening, the agency concluded, few improvements have been made since similar problems were detected...
...takes son Brad and teenage daughter Eleanor to Orioles baseball games, and they indulge his attraction to carnival rides. During a trip to Germany when he was deputy CIA director, Gates detoured to a local fairground, security detail in tow, and rode a roller coaster called the Triple Loop. A man of plain tastes and middlebrow origins, Gates likes to torment elitists at the CIA and the State Department, whom he derides as "guys with last names for first names." He tells corny jokes and Russian jokes. And he is relentlessly practical in a way that sometimes amuses his friends...
...institute a rent cup that would limit increases to 50 percent in a tow-year period...
...Firday, the Crimson opened up the tournament with a 9-7 loss to Brown. The tow teams have traded victories all season long, and, despite shelling the Bears net, the Crimson could not pull through...