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...four years to make up for," says Robert F. Dee '46-'49, who fought for the Tenth Mountain Ski Troop. "We had lost so much time we were doing our damnedest to get out quickly...
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA: Pyongyang upped the ante in its on-again, off- again confrontation with South Korea Friday when a small troop of North Korean soldiers crossed the demarcation line of the demilitarized zone separating the two nations. Seven soldiers ventured 20 to 30 yards into the South's territory and fired rifles in the air but retreated an hour later after South Korean border guards returned14 warning shots. North Korea hopes its latest violation of the 43-year-old armistice between the two nations will draw the U.S. back into direct talks with Pyongyang over peace on the Korean...
...changed in the past generation, and current plans rely far less on mines than did those appropriate for wars of attrition. The capabilities the U.S. now emphasizes are speed, stealth and surprise. Even the Army's current manual on mines questions their usefulness, given the unpredictability of friendly troop movements. The military's most dramatic show of support for a ban came in April, when several prominent retired officers, including Norman Schwarzkopf, signed a full-page ad that ran in the New York Times. The ad called the prohibition "not only humane, but also militarily responsible...
HEBRON, West Bank: The stabbing of an Israeli settler by a Palestinian in Hebron on Wednesday added fuel to an already raging inferno of debate over Israel's agreement to pull out its troops from the city. Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres is under increasing pressure from religious and right-wing parties to delay the troop withdrawal until after elections May 29. The parties hope the right- wing Likud party will win the election and back out of the pullout agreement with Palestinians. "Hebron is a tinderbox," Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer says. "It is a tense place even under...
...authorities can only put together the sequence of events that led to the evil of Dunblane. The start might be traced back as far as 1974, when Boy Scout officials dismissed Hamilton, then 21, for "inappropriate behavior" as leader of a local troop, and to subsequent incidents involving his attempts to organize boys' sports clubs in the area. Or it might have arisen from his fascination with handguns, which he obtained as long as 20 years ago and owned legally despite strict British laws. But whatever its origins, the culmination came at around 9 a.m. Wednesday when Hamilton left...