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...Vegas, when male Navy officers and reservists were not assaulting frightened women or drinking from the navels of cooperative ones, they took part in a series of professional seminars. A female naval officer asked a panelist at one such session when women would be permitted to fly combat airplanes. Her question drew hisses and boos and the call "We don't want women!" from the audience. The senior officer on the panel, an admiral, treated it as a joke by ducking under the table...
...pounding began a few minutes after 6 a.m., when an armored combat engineer vehicle with a long, insistent steel nose started prodding a corner of the building. Shots rang out from the windows the moment agents began pumping in tear gas. A second CEV joined in, buckling walls, breaking windows, ! nudging, nudging, as though moving the building would move those inside. "This is not an assault!" agent Byron Sage cried over the loudspeakers. "Do not shoot. We are not entering your compound." Ambulances waited a mile back; the local hospital, Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center, was on alert...
...order to help combat the many myths about guns and gun owners, I invite any Crimson editor who has never fired a hand-gun to learn basic handgun safety and marks-manship as my guest at the Braintree Rifle and Pistol Club. John...
Despite his displays of combat fatigue last week, Yeltsin took his campaign to the Kuzbass, a mining area of western Siberia that has been a strong power base for him in recent years. He found that the miners are still on his side, but their ardor has cooled. He seemed almost apologetic when he asked them to help him break the stalemate in Moscow. "Our policy squabbling at the highest level," he said, "is a crime and should be stopped...
Unless non-Americans are included, the analysts say, it is not possible to come up with a total of 1,205 American candidates for POW status. Apart from MIAs who the Pentagon is all but certain died in combat, there are only 135 so-called discrepancy cases today. After analyzing the Quang report, Robert Sheetz, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency's POW office, wrote in an internal Pentagon memo that the "DIA believes the number 1,205 could be an accurate accounting of total prisoners held" if foreigners working as U.S. agents are included. But, Sheetz added...