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...snake, the aircraft rockets upward from a standing start, slows to a near standstill as the pilot pulls its nose just past the 90 degrees point, flies backward in that position and then snaps forward again and resumes normal flight. U.S. military officers dismiss the maneuver as impractical for combat, but the sleek blue-and-white fighters are expected to star at this month's Salon Aeronautique Espace in Paris...
...assumed a more central role in military planning. The Defense Department's Total Force policy is designed to have units of the Air National Guard and reserves and Army Guard support troops available for quick deployment; in the event of a war lasting more than a few weeks, heavy-combat Guard and reserve units would be called up to round out divisions of the regular Army. Based on the military's commitment to Total Force, Congress has poured more than $100 billion into training the Guard and equipping its troops during the past decade...
...Lisa Schkolnick's indignation at the Fly's discriminatory membership practices was understandable, but the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination has more important discrimination to combat in society. Discrimination in housing. Discrimination in employment. Discrimination that directly affects the livelihoods of working men and women. Discrimination that blatantly violates...
These efforts constitute a direct attack on the choices of ANGSTers. I call on all ne'erdowell seniors to resist the dominant paradigm created by HUBRIS. We must affirm and defend our chosen indecision! We must unite, better to combat our rivals, and to promote our alternative way of life--or lack thereof...
Suspicions zeroed in at once on the Tamil Tigers, a combat-hardened band of guerrillas who have been fighting for a separate state in northeast Sri Lanka. Notoriously dedicated and vengeful, the Tigers have mastered terrorist bombing to a degree still unknown among India's own insurgents. Gandhi, whose mother's policies had done much to whelp and teethe the Tigers, earned their enmity in 1987 when he co-authored a peace plan for their offshore island republic. Instead of surrendering their arms, the Tigers fought Indian peacekeeping troops in hit-and-run warfare with extensive casualties...