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Walk around. Walter Schulze was assigned to fly the news that the Great War was over to units east of the Rhine; on the way home, his plane crashed and he was killed. Art Bonifas, near the end of his tour, took a group out one day in 1976 to prune a poplar in the DMZ; the North Koreans set upon them and killed him. In Vietnam, Ron Zinn, twice an Olympic race walker, went out on patrol ahead of his unit and stepped on a mine. Bob Fuellhart was advising a Vietnamese battalion; while word was being sent...
...Americans had at least a measure of international support ? they were accompanied by Australian and British U.N. workers. The other 66 inspectors were allowed to wait until a U.N. plane arrived to take them to Bahrain. For the last 11 days, U.N. inspection teams have been turned away from Iraqi weapons facilities because of the presence of the Americans, who got their marching orders Thursday...
Cajete said this advice means that people should "take their thinking to a higher plane--as if on top of a mountain...
...Whether a touching display of unity or a recognition of realpolitik, Butler's action puts the crisis on a new plane. The U.N., as well as the U.S., has been snubbed. Will Clinton now launch a long-awaited air strike? Not just yet, says TIME State Department correspondent Dean Fischer. ?In the short term, the administration is going to continue going the diplomatic route. They?re not likely to mount an attack on Iraq at this stage...
...Asked whether Iraq would initiate hostilities by firing on a U-2 spy plane when flights resume Saturday, he was more subtle: "We cannot allow the U-2 to come and take pictures of areas that America might want to attack...