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Five decades later the wounds are still fresh. Charles Dryden is 74 years old now, but during World War II, when he was young, he was one of the Tuskegee airmen, the U.S. Army Air Corps's first unit of African-American combat pilots. He remembers traveling in the South with his fellow airmen and being forced out of his seat and into the Negroes-only car at the front of the train, where the soot and smoke were thickest, to make room for German pows. He recalls being barred from the cafeteria at military bases, where Italian pows were...
Commando Solo has already been battle-tested by the 193rd Special Operations Group, a Pennsylvania Air National Guard unit. During the Persian Gulf War, the plane's crew broadcast radio reports to Iraqi soldiers eager to hear uncensored news of the war, including some of the next areas to be targeted by U.S. bombers. As a result, many Iraqi soldiers deserted those positions. To prepare Haiti for the U.S. intervention there, Commando Solo beamed in radio and TV messages from deposed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Each broadcast began with the crow of a rooster, the symbol of Aristide's political...
...Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) and the Cambridge Narcotics Unit conducted the search, which HUPD Lieutenant John F. Rooney said "was right by the numbers. We didn't meet any resistance...
...attitude is insufficient. As a case in point, human-rights activist Ann Manuel cites the CIA's liaison with Honduras' infamous Battalion 316 during the years when the country was considered an essential anti-Sandinista bulwark. "For four years," she says, "you had U.S. training of a special-intelligence unit, specifically instructing them not to torture, yet they systematically tortured...
This is not unusual. Asthma is known to scientists as a great masquerader. According to doctors at the pediatric-care unit of the University of Florida Health Sciences Center in Gainesville, 25% of the patients referred to them had been previously misdiagnosed with pneumonia or bronchitis. One reason: primary-care physicians may not suspect asthma if they do not actually hear wheezing, which is more likely to occur at night than in a doctor's office. In many cases the symptoms are so subtle that they are dismissed as allergies...