Word: troop
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JERUSALEM: Benjamin Netanyahu is thumbing his nose at Madeleine Albright. Earlier this week, Albright laid down an ultimatum to the Israeli leader: Accept a compromise by Monday on troop withdrawal from the West Bank, or else...
WASHINGTON: The beefed-up American troop presence in the Gulf may be keeping Saddam on his toes, but it's also busting the Pentagon's budget. Deputy Defense Secretary John Hamre told reporters Wednesday that the cost of managing the latest standoff with Iraq has been "well over $600 million." And that's above and beyond the $700 million in ordinary operating costs that congressional bean-counters budgeted for fiscal 1998. With seven months to go, the meter is running...
Shelton's remarks counter a report--released by a panel empowered by Congress to determine the status of threats to U.S. national security--which concluded the U.S. does not face the possibility of two regional conflicts, the standard on which the Department of Defense currently bases its conception of troop readiness...
...Haiti and the head of the Special Operations Command, Shelton is by all accounts a no-nonsense muti-service military man in a multitask world. Which fits the agenda that awaits him: smoothing the way into NATO for Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary; ensuring that the 1998 Bosnia troop pullout deadline is met, and dealing with a Pentagon cantankerous about shrinking budgets and expanding peacekeeping missions. But the best part about Shelton, who served as assistant commander of the Army's 101st Airborne Division in the Persian Gulf War, is that he looks to be scandal-free. President Clinton...
...Vinton County High School, textbooks are 25 years old and in such short supply that students routinely share them. The countertops in the home-economics room are peeled back like popovers, and college guidance is dispensed from a renovated boys' bathroom. And since the school lacks a cafeteria, students troop out at noon to eat at bars, a pizza joint or a gas station, which often means a candy bar and a Coke...