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Only four starters return from that highlight-making defensive unit Experienced seniors filled four linemen's positions and the entire corps last season. And now they're gone. Last year's secondary is still intact and should help teach the younger players Penn's "50" defense...
Only once in the past 20 years has the head of the Senate unit also been chairman of a major legislative committee. So far this year, D'Amato has leveraged his Banking Committee power to raise $14 million for Senate candidates and open the wallets of Wall Street for Bob Dole, who calls him "the man who won't take yes for an answer." Common Cause president Ann McBride doesn't share Dole's sense of humor on the subject. "When the Banking chairman comes calling as the party's chief fund raiser," she says, "and comes...
...popular practice of imposing mandatory sentences, a response to public anger over inadequate prison terms, is making it harder to offer time off as a reward for good behavior. To ban such things as TV and recreation as well, warns warden Thomas McKinney of the Alfred Hughes state prison unit in Gatesville, Texas, would "take away one of our best management tools...
...squadron happened upon a group of enemy planes. In less than five minutes, the airmen knocked down five. Later that same day, another group from the 99th downed three more. They had proved they could fight. The 99th eventually became part of the 332nd, a larger all-black unit, and altogether the pilots of the 332nd flew 1,578 missions and won 150 Distinguished Flying Crosses and 744 air medals , making them among the most highly decorated pilots of the war. They never lost a bomber under their protection, and eventually white bomber pilots began to specifically ask for them...
...public acknowledgment by a retired Israeli general that, as a captain, he helped massacre 49 Egyptian POWs during the 1956 war in the Sinai stirred other veterans to speak out about similar atrocities in the war of 1967. The unit allegedly involved in the 1956 incident was commanded by right-wing politician Rafael Eitan, who intends to run for Prime Minister in 1996. At Egypt's request, the Israeli government ordered an investigation...