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...BASE The first U.S. cargo planes landed at an airfield south of Nasiriya that is expected to become a major point of resupply for coalition forces. Iraqi forces continued to attack coalition positions around the city...
...Fort Bliss, the 507th's home base, shock came first, then silence. No one on the post could tell the families of the dead and missing what had gone wrong, what a cook and a computer specialist, a mechanic and an aspiring elementary school teacher were doing in a convoy so close to battle, so unprotected. The 507th's usual job is to keep diesel tankers rolling, fix generators and service Patriot missile batteries. But it was attacked on March 23, at night, somewhere on or near Highway 1, one of the main north-south roads in Iraq...
Many Arabs are still deeply angered by the U.S. treatment of Taliban fighters and suspected terrorists at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. When the detainees first began to arrive there in January 2002, Rumsfeld said the U.S. was planning--"for the most part"--to treat them in a manner "reasonably consistent" with the Geneva Conventions. Human-rights groups howled that he was waffling on the long-standing U.S. commitment to the global agreement. The Bush Administration argued that the conventions weren't appropriate for many detainees because they were essentially criminals--that is, terrorists without countries...
...recent months Guantanamo commanders have said that even though the detainees aren't POWs (they are called "unlawful combatants"), the third convention is being honored at the base. Red Cross representatives have verified that the detainees are generally treated humanely, with one exception. The convention states that if any doubt exists as to whether a detainee is a combatant or a criminal, a "competent tribunal" should decide. The Guantanamo prisoners have had no legal proceedings...
DAVID BRADFORD: As a Treasury official in the Ford Administration, I became convinced that the way toward a simpler, more transparent system was to base the tax on consumption. The plan we developed would replace the income tax on individuals and corporations. Everything that came into the individual household was taxed, and everything that went out in the form of savings was excluded from tax, with no tax on companies. Since then I have concluded that an indirect approach, with a tax on companies and a graduated tax on individuals, would be easier to implement. The key difference between income...