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...maintaining order. But during the Vietnam War we spent years training South Vietnamese troops to take over the fighting. The North Vietnamese, however, easily prevailed as the war reached a climax. The Administration suggests that the Iraqi army, when trained, will be able to subdue the wave of terrorism sweeping Iraq. This is utter nonsense and just more political spin. Larry Mercer Yakima...
...more volume, is unclear. Joshi of the Children's Place adds that, unlike China, India still doesn't have many large, modern apparel factories and that its often antiquated plants might struggle to handle the flood of new orders. For India, he says, "it will be like surfing a wave for 18 months. Either the country will drown under the inflow or will learn to glide...
...aliens in 1961; in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Driving in the White Mountains one night, the Hills said they saw strange lights but then blanked out. Later, under hypnosis, they described being probed by aliens aboard a spacecraft; a tale that inspired a book, a TV movie and a wave of popular fascination with alien encounters. DIED. PAUL H. NITZE, 97, formidable diplomat and negotiator who was one of the principal architects of American's cold war policies toward the Soviet Union; in Washington, D.C. Erudite, brash and sometimes irritable, he worked for Presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt through to Ronald...
...manned space flight," whose design of the Mercury space capsule made it possible for men to return from space; in Houston, Texas. Early needle-nosed spaceships were almost impossible to protect from the heat of reentry. Faget designed a blunt nose for the Mercury, which created a shock wave that deflected the heat...
...modernity, and he thought any country that could develop them had an intrinsic right to do so. In his experience, through 25 years and two wars, WMD had also saved his neck. In the 1980s war with Iran, he concluded that chemical shells had repelled the enemy's human-wave attacks and that ballistic missiles had broken the will of its leaders. He was convinced that his readiness to use WMD during the Gulf War in 1991 had prevented the U.S.-led liberators of Kuwait from marching all the way to Baghdad to topple his regime. In a closed-door...