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...dissent,” said Susan Schumann, a plaintiff in the case and the mother of a Marine. “I was asked by John to join the suit. I talked to my son about it, and he said, ‘If I am a soldier, it’s to defend the constitution and your right to speak...
...American soldiers preparing for a possible war with Iraq face plenty of dangers, but at least one has been eased: fat-filled mess-hall rations. Scientists at the U.S. Army Soldier Systems Center in Natick, Mass., have just finished a three-year mission to cut the fat from the military's 1,700 mess-hall recipes. The changes were made to deal with an uncomfortable reality: like many other Americans, too many soldiers are paunchy, despite weight requirements and physical training. Many military personnel hold tedious, stressful and sedentary jobs, and as a result, 54% of all military personnel...
DIED. LARRY LESUEUR, 93, Peabody Award--winning CBS correspondent who was part of the elite group, called Murrow's Boys, hired by Edward R. Murrow to cover Europe during World War II; in Washington. Vividly illuminating the horror with intimate details, like the look on a soldier's face, LeSueur covered the blitz by German bombers in London and wrote the book Twelve Months That Changed the World about his time at the Russian front. On Aug. 25, 1944, he gave Americans the first radio report on the liberation of Paris...
...several calls had been made from that second phone to senior Abu Sayyaf figures. There was also a single call to Husain made on Oct. 3 at 11:34 a.m.?one day after a bombing in Zamboanga City attributed to Abu Sayyaf had killed three people, including a U.S. soldier...
...Iraq," he insisted last week. His ministers, meanwhile, barnstormed Washington for more aid, including help in freezing foreign bank accounts connected to the guerrillas. Their efforts got considerably more attention late last week when a U.S. government reconnaissance plane carrying four Americans contracted by the military and a Colombian soldier crash-landed in the southern province of Caquetá, in a zone controlled by the FARC. U.S. officials say the guerrillas executed the Colombian and one American, then presumably kidnapped the other three. (None of the Americans was identified.) The murdered American was the first working for the U.S. government...