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...with or without any money, the sweeping settlement is a crucial moment in three decades of public and private efforts in court to combat tobacco use. Critics first relied on research and education to counter smoking--a tactic that produced plenty of posters but not much change in consumers' habits. Legal attacks proved more successful. "We were always outgunned at first," says John Banzhaf, a law professor at George Washington University and founder of Action on Smoking & Health, an antitobacco group. But that nose-to-nose approach led to victories ranging from bans on smoking in public places to Liggett...
...expansion, which sounds pushy) will "remain on track" no matter how much it upsets Moscow. Still, Clinton offered Yeltsin a menu of sweeteners called the "three nos." NATO has "no intention, no plan and no reason" to deploy nuclear weapons in new member states. The same goes for combat troops. And Russia will be invited to sit in a joint council at NATO headquarters to talk about whatever the alliance...
...them when they shot us," said Staff Sergeant David Kuusela, who commanded an armored personnel carrier during the battle. "We took a lot of losses today that we normally don't." But Kuusela added that EXFOR's yearlong preoccupation with mastering the new gear had allowed some of its combat skills to rust. "If their battlefield technique was a little better," he said, "they might have rolled...
...still spent hours building sand tables, miniature re-creations of the battlefield built in the dirt. EXFOR leaders still carried plenty of thumbtacks and acetate overlay maps to use as back-ups during the inevitable computer snafus. And commanders still insisted that once the "knife fight" of close-in combat began, soldiers must revert to traditional hand signals and radio commands...
DIED. COLONEL JOHN R. BOYD, 70, military theorist; of cancer; in West Palm Beach, Florida. The Air Force pilot's discovery that a plane's agility, not its speed, was a key factor in aerial combat shaped the quick-response design...