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...That guy shoots like a crazyman against us," Harvard Coach Peter Roby said. "We gear our defense to play against the inside game and he goes hitting three-pointers...
...those charges. The M-17 mask and suit, says an Army spokesman, "will protect our soldiers." Martin Calhoun, an analyst at the independent Center for Defense Information in Washington, agrees: "The M-17 does its job." A study by the Government Accounting Office in 1986 found that while U.S. gear was old and bulky, it offered sufficient protection...
Chemical weapons are horrifying and unreliable, and some military specialists have questioned whether Saddam would resort to them. Poisons might not be highly effective because modern armored vehicles have filters to keep them out and infantrymen wear protective gear. But Saddam is determined to kill as many allied troops as possible, and his chemical shells caused an estimated 25,000 Iranian deaths...
...deteriorate and some of their co-workers look to get out of the business altogether, most cabbies do not see their prospects in an optimistic light. Still, a small minority retain hope for the future, when, they say, renewed financial stability will put them and their taxis back in gear. Cromwell counts himself in this group...
...concrete walls seal off the narrow cobblestone streets leading to the Latvian parliament in Riga's Old Town. Four barricades block access to the small square in front of the building. Milling around bonfires near the parliament's entrance, wearing combat gear and carrying AK-47 assault rifles, are militiamen loyal to the republic's separatist government. At other bonfires in nearby Cathedral Square, hundreds of Latvians stand vigil through the night, listening to passionate music and somber poetry blaring from loudspeakers...