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WASHINGTON -- Although the issue of women in combat is still being fiercely debated, U.S. Army officials say one gender issue is all but decided: by year's end, men and women will be training side by side in boot camp. Currently, recruits train in single-sex, 100-troop companies. Under the soon- to-be-implemented system, men and women will be mixed in basic-training companies but segregated into same-sex squads of about 12 members each in the barracks...
Ignoring threats of bloodshed from Tutsi rebels, nearly 600 French soldiers in Operation Turquoise advanced several miles into Rwanda from the 2,500-troop base camp in Zaire. A small group of armored vehicles and 40 Foreign Legion paratroopers joined them. The potentially deadly irony of this situation: the French, threatened most directly by Tutsi rebels, are aiming to secure a refugee camp to protect 8,000 Tutsi from the widespread slaughter inflicted by ruling Hutu militias...
...projects just keep on coming, as studios ransack America's collective subliterate unconscious for new hits from old shows: American Gladiators (with Cliffhanger's Renny Harlin producing); Bewitched (Penny Marshall); The Brady Bunch; F Troop; Gentle Ben; Gilligan's Island; Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.; The Green Hornet; Hawaii Five-0; Hogan's Heroes (from writer- producer John Hughes); The Invaders; Lost in Space; My Favorite Martian; The Rifleman; The Saint and many, many more...
...first news interview in weeks, and her first ever devoted to Whitewater, but this was no charm offensive: she met her guests from TIME not in the customary spots -- the solarium or the family quarters -- but in a combat zone, the Map Room where Franklin Roosevelt plotted troop movements throughout the Second World...
...when I was younger, a Boy Scout. The program appealed to me because it involved chopping down trees, building fires, getting dirty and being outdoors--things that I liked to do. The program also had a moral component, most obvious at the start or end of troop meetings, when we recited the Scout Law: "A scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent...