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...next morning, Perkins estimates, his unit had killed more than 1,200 attackers and taken the fight out of the rest. At first light, an Iraqi colonel walked up to an American position and surrendered. "He was a POW in the last Gulf War, so he had practice in surrendering when things are going bad," says Captain Cary Adams. The Iraqi colonel said he had only 200 of his 1,200 men left and claimed that originally there had been two other brigades in the town. One moved out during the night toward Baghdad, he said, while the other...
Besides serving as a supply depot staging area, chemical-and biological-weapons detection lab, and a medevac point, the liberated air base now has a hospital. Behind the newly erected surgical unit, hospital chief Colonel Harry Warren shows me three large crates full of Iraqi gas masks found on the base; stamped inside the unused masks are the words MADE IN GERMANY...
...close to breaking even is no small feat for an academic press in a floundering economy. Strictly academic books are caught in an economic downward spiral. The costs of publishing them are no less than more popular books, but with so few people interested in purchasing them, the per-unit cost can frequently be exorbitant...
...Consider the story of Pfc. Joseph P. Dwyer, whose picture, by now, you’ve likely seen in a newspaper or on television. Pfc. Dwyer is an Army medic who enlisted two days after Sept. 11. (His three brothers are New York City police officers). Last Tuesday, his unit, the 3rd Squadron of the 7th Cavalry Regiment, was ambushed by Hussein’s troops as they advanced northward along the Euphrates River. The Iraqis were firing from both sides of the road; the Americans shot back and radioed for air strikes. Meanwhile, a family from a nearby village...
Officers will be stopping bicyclists to explain the mandatory lighting for bicycles at night—a white front light and a red back light that can be seen from at least 500 feet away, said Sergeant Kathleen Murphy of the CPD Bike Control Unit...