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...steamy darkness of a summer night on the Persian Gulf, Staff Sergeant Alfredo Guerrero was making the rounds of the observation posts under his command. He stepped onto the roof of one of the apartment buildings at the Khobar Towers near Dhahran and said hello to the two other members of the U.S. Air Force security police posted there. Then something caught his eye. Below he saw a white Chevrolet Caprice pulling into a public parking lot adjacent to the compound. Nothing odd about that, but the car was being followed closely by a large tanker truck...
Bubka, 32, has been tilting at limitations for years, ever since he began vaulting at age 10 in the Ukrainian coal town of Lugansk, against the wishes of his father, a Soviet army sergeant. "It was a very hard time," he recalls. For nine years he persevered, unheralded, until the 1983 World championships in Helsinki. There he cleared 18 ft. 81/4 in. on his first try, a jump that won the gold and presaged dazzling things to come. So green was Bubka at the time that he failed to show up at the required press conference afterward; he had already...
SENTENCED. WILLIAM KREUTZER, 27, Army sergeant convicted of murdering an officer and wounding 18 other soldiers in a sniper attack last October; to death; at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The shootings occurred as fellow members of the 82nd Airborne Division stood in formation...
...Mike Boorda, U.S. Chief of Naval Operations [NATION, May 27], expressed varying views. Rand Knox of San Rafael, California, remembered the recent forced resignations of other high-ranking military officials and suggested Boorda had overreacted. Wrote Knox: "The military makes the trivial important and the important trivial." Retired Army Sergeant Major David L. Pompili of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was saddened by the suicide but pointed out, "If Boorda's citation did not award the V device [for valor in combat experience], he was not authorized to wear it. Careers are ruined by lying to the troops, and the good admiral...
FORT BRAGG, North Carolina: After just two hours of deliberations, a military jury unanimously convicted Army sergeant William Kreutzer of premeditated murder in a sniper attack last October that killed one person and wounded 18 others. Kreutzer, who was also found guilty on 18 counts of attempted murder, could now face the death penalty. During the trial, Fort Bragg's chief psychiatrist testified that Kreutzer suffered from a personality disorder that began when he was an adolescent and now makes him chronically depressed and paranoid. "This was a man who for quite a while was coming unglued," reports TIME...