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Shelton said land mines are vital to the protection of U.S. interests in South Korea; thousands of land mines are scattered throughout the demilitarized zone separating that country from North Korea. He added that anti-personnel mine, scattered between mines designed to destroy advancing tanks were necessary implements of defense policy...
While some close observers like George Soros say the predatory period of Russian capitalism is almost over, the campaign to destroy Anatoli Chubais shows it is still going strong. First Deputy Prime Minister and the dominant voice in economic policy, Chubais is under relentless attack by two of the biggest magnates, Boris Berezovsky and Vladimir Gusinsky. The classic weapons of Russian politics are being used: compromising documents known as kompromat, the media, envoys shuttling back and forth across the Atlantic to persuade the Clinton Administration that Chubais is soiled goods. They have already crippled him; two weeks ago, Boris Yeltsin...
Many professors at Harvard and other universities said Masten's case would damage Harvard's already-struggling effort to attract the best young professors and would destroy the morale of junior faculty in the English department, who had high hopes that he would receive tenure here...
...joysticks or a steering wheel and a small TV screen, manipulating the vehicle like someone playing a video game. Light vehicles carry gear that pinpoints the location of the mines for later destruction. Alternatively, tanks push heavy rollers or a metal contraption called a flail that can destroy mines directly. If a big mine blows up the vehicle instead...well, no human is hurt...
...Lockheed Martin and Motorola, put the first kit together in his basement. Since 1992 his company has outfitted 50 military vehicles and multiplied sales nearly 100 times, from $50,000 a year to $4.4 million. In Bosnia last May the kits enabled U.S. Army vehicles to find and destroy 71 antipersonnel mines in two days. Parish says he has contracts to strap the kits onto an additional several hundred vehicles over the next five years...