-Caveat Lector-
RadTimes # 55 - September, 2000
An informally produced compendium of vital irregularities.
"We're living in rad times!"
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Contents:
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--World Bank schemes cost 2.6m their homes
--Colombia Rebels Set Sights on U.S. Troops
--Police Try, But Gangs Thrive
--Toys Of The Super-Rich
--Air Force team teaches joint antiterrorism class
--Vandenberg launches pair of Minutemans
Linked stories:
*Report Says School Gun Incidents Underreported
*Homeless People Being Recruited as Drug Couriers
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Begin stories:
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World Bank schemes cost 2.6m their homes
September 26, 2000, Tuesday London Edition
Financial Times (London)
by STEPHEN FIDLER
More than 2.6m people around the world were being resettled
against their will by World Bank projects under way last year,
according to bank documents.
The emergence of the documents, which have not been made public, will
fuel controversy over bank resettlement policies that were ignited by
a contentious debate earlier this year over whether to grant China a
loan for an anti-poverty project in the western part of the country.
That loan was expected to lead to the resettlement - supposedly
voluntary - of 57,000 people.
Figures compiled by the bank for a report dated last October suggest
223 of its projects under way last October would result in the
involuntary resettlement of 681,000 households and more than 2.6m
people. A majority of the projects are in the bank's East Asian and
Pacific (EAP) region, and most of them in China.
An earlier draft of the same report dated in May last year said 40 per
cent of all projects involving resettlement were "likely to have a
significant adverse environmental impacts" - and half of those made in
the bank's EAP region.
Almost all the other such projects around the world were judged to be
in a lower category, as having a "potential adverse environmental
impact". However, these breakdowns were excised from the final version
of the report, which bank officials said was prepared for the US
executive director's office.
The bank was criticised by an independent panel for not following its
own safeguard policies in western China, and the documents, passed to
the FT by a campaigning group, show bank loans are having a bigger
impact on local populations than previously acknowledged.
The bank has acknowledged failings in its resettlement policies and a
new broader "operational directive" to guide the bank is under
discussion. The bank has also established a 60-strong compliance
operation in Washington. This is part of an attempt to counter
criticism that the decentralisation of the bank and its greater
efforts at satisfying its government clients has meant the bank's own
safeguard policies are being ignored.
Steen Jorgensen, recently appointed director of the bank's social
development department, acknowledged the institution had made mistakes
in following its guidelines.
"It's very clear that (crit ics) are right in the sense that western
China is not alone," he said.
"We can only help move the debate somewhere else if we are credible in
doing what we are supposed to be doing now. The problem is we are
not," he said. He said however that a standard that insisted no
individual was resettled involuntarily would probably impede
development.
Environmental groups are dubious about the effectiveness of the new
compliance operation.
Some are also critical of the outlines of the new resettlement policy,
which in its latest draft would no longer insist that people who lost
land on being resettled would get land in its place.
Heffa Schuking, director of Urgewald, a German environmental group,
said the issue was of growing importance as the numbers forced out of
their homes by World Bank projects grew.
She cited figures showing the numbers affected rising from 450,000 in
1983, to 2.6m now.
Bank officials said this reflected increased numbers of bank projects
in cities, where sanitation and other projects required the removal of
large numbers of people.
However, Ms Schuking said she was concerned that the bank's definition
of voluntary resettlement might well be too generous, given that
countries were increasingly monitoring their own compliance with bank
safeguards.
She was also critical of James Wolfensohn, World Bank president, whose
response to the bank board over the western China controversy, was to
warn against "a literal and mechanistic application" of the bank's
operational directives that was never intended when they were written.
Bank officials said, however, that too strong an insistence on
applying every safeguard literally could in the end backfire. In the
end China withdrew its application for the controversial anti-poverty
loan, arguing that it was being asked to comply with excessive
demands. It said it would go ahead using its own financing.
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Colombia Rebels Set Sights on U.S. Troops
Friday September 29 7:12 PM ET
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Marxist rebels issued a warning on Friday to U.S.
soldiers based in Colombia, saying they will be
declared a ``military target'' if they take any front-line combat role in
the nation's long-running war.
``The FARC declares United States soldiers a military target,'' said the
headline of a statement distributed via the Internet by the
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
The 17,000-strong rebel army, known by its Spanish-language acronym, is
Latin America's largest and oldest guerrilla force. It
has a dominant presence in roughly 40 percent of Colombia, a country a U.S.
military spokesman described on Friday as
among the most treacherous places anywhere around the globe.
``All Colombian or foreign military personnel in combat zones will be a
military target of the FARC,'' said the statement, quoting
senior rebel commander Andres Paris.
``At the moment FARC guerrillas do not wish to reveal if there are concrete
plans to attack United States military bases in the
country,'' it said.
But it added that several such bases, where U.S. military personnel are
located, were ``very close to regions where guerrillas
recently staged intense combat that caused government forces important
casualties.''
U.S. and Colombian officials have said repeatedly that American troops will
not be involved directly in the Andean nation's
escalating war against the drug trade and the leftist guerrillas they accuse
of protecting and profiting from the trafficking.
In Miami, a spokesman for the U.S. Southern Command -- which oversees U.S.
military operations across most of Latin
America -- reiterated that American forces were ``limited strictly to
counter-drug and training activities'' in Colombia.
But the spokesman, Steve Lucas, acknowledged U.S. troops were in ``an
inherently dangerous business'' in Colombia and said
the FARC threat would not be ignored.
``We try to take the security and protection of our people very seriously,
try to ensure that they are doing their training activities
and other support activities in only the safe regions,'' Lucas said.
``But the entire nation of Colombia and its border regions have become the
most dangerous places in the Western Hemisphere
if not the world, because of the actions of these extralegal organizations
so we're sharing the risks.''
Train Special Battalions
Under a $1.3 billion U.S. aid package for Colombia approved by the U.S.
Congress in July, lawmakers opened the way for the
number of American advisers in Colombia to be doubled to about 500 at any
one time, to train special battalions in fighting
drugs, and indirectly, guerrillas.
But the package contains a clause that would allow the U.S. president to
wave the cap for 90 days in the event of an ''imminent
involvement'' of U.S. forces in hostilities.
The FARC has branded the aid package, consisting of mostly military aid, as
counterinsurgency assistance thinly disguised as
anti-drug aid, and warned repeatedly of Washington's slide into a military
quagmire.
The latest FARC statement was similar to several others the group has issued
over the past year, warning U.S. military advisers
against a deeper, Vietnam-style involvement in an internal conflict that has
taken 35,000 lives over the past decade.
America's involvement in Vietnam began with the dispatch of military
advisers and led to the deaths of about 58,000 U.S. troops.
A Gallup poll published last month in a leading Colombian weekly news
magazine, Semana, said 56 percent of Colombians favored U.S. military
intervention to resolve the country's armed conflict.
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Police Try, But Gangs Thrive
by Sean Webby
San Jose Mercury News, Sept. 18, 2000
Arrests And Crackdowns Seem To Have Little Effect On Wily Street 'Families'
Flashing cash, spiky "500 Block" tattoos, Stanford baseball caps and the
hint of handguns in their sweatshirt pockets, the new generation shouts out
in Spanglish that this is their street now, this dusty dead-end destination
that has no sign, needs none, to announce itself.
The 500 block of Sacramento Street is about 75 yards of rutted asphalt, two
lines of working-class homes, some graffiti, some flowerpots and a small
drug gang with one of the Peninsula's most bloody and incorrigible criminal
pedigrees.
They are the scourge of East Palo Alto, a city that's working hard to put
its hardscrabble past behind it and build a safe community. City leaders
openly acknowledge that East Palo Alto's future depends on whether it can
tame and transform Sac Street and the other gangs scattered around the city.
Ten years of crackdowns by police, headquartered just three blocks away -
-- haven't driven crime off the road. The Sac Street gang has survived,
even prospered. Its stubborn endurance illustrates why all the raids, laws
and even Proposition 21's lock-em-up mandate, passed by California voters
last fall, have not dissolved street gangs here or in many other cities.
From San Jose, which has about 40 gangs, to San Francisco, which has
hundreds, communities are struggling with the underground war on their
streets. Law enforcement and social services agencies have created task
forces, youth diversion programs and special schools. Police have
developed intelligence about the gangs and target them when they go awry.
But the gangs persist.
Repeated police raids have reduced the number of dead bodies and the
bullets flying on East Palo Alto's Sacramento Street. But for the Sac
Street set itself, the only major difference police crackdowns have made is
that there are younger faces than there were a decade ago.
Their routine remains the same. Slowly at first in the hot dusty
afternoons, but then picking up when streetlights glower, cars pull
judiciously onto the street and coast toward the night shade of some dusty
eucalyptus trees. If it is a car they know, the boys amble up to the
window while another runs to get whatever is needed, white or green,
cocaine or marijuana. If it isn't, someone hoots and another puts a
flashlight on the driver's face, and some of the boys automatically put
their hands in their pockets.
If it's a police car, the street clears. In less than five seconds
Sacramento Street transforms into a residential Californian cul-de-sac with
the sound of a Mexican TV channel and a baby crying.
As soon as the black-and-white exits, returning into the stream of traffic
on University Avenue, the knot of guys reassembles, throwing Corona empties
and curses after the taillights.
"This ain't no gang, there isn't any Sac Street gang, it ain't like that,"
said one 16-year-old, called "S" here because he didn't want his named
published. S had a thick gold rope around his neck and eyes that pretended
they weren't working hard. "This is family," he said.
But law enforcement officers approach this particular "family" with guns
and bulletproof vests.
Local police, a task force and now a highly trained special force from the
San Mateo County Sheriff's Department have targeted Sac Street, which has
about 25 members. Police have hidden in bushes, listening; talked to them;
and swept down the street photographing the gang members, cataloging their
tattoos and red-and-black colors, making parole arrests.
Arrests don't stop the trouble
There have been dozens of arrests. In 1995, Mexican police finally busted
the legendary Bernardo Chacon, a Sac Street leader and cop killer who once
shot an 18-month-old and her father while trying to hit a rival gang
member. And as a result of Chacon's removal, murders and other violent
crime have been dramatically reduced, here and throughout the city.
Yet Sac Street perseveres. Sac Street prospers. Sac Street grinds.
"Look how long it took to arrest Al Capone," said Tom Maloney, the
detective sergeant with the sheriff's department who heads the city's
gang-suppression squad. "Stopping gangs is like stopping crime, it's hard."
There are at least several other small gangs plaguing East Palo Alto, still
inhabiting pockets of the city not far from neighborhoods now
gentrifying. Sac Street still holds the reputation for being the most
successful, as measured on the streets, and the most violent.
"And in a pretty violent city that is saying a lot," said detective John
Munsey of the sheriff's department's Crime Suppression Unit.
On a recent weeknight, there was a drug buyer driving down to the dead end
every 15 or 20 minutes. And most of the teenage gang members are pulling
in impressive street salaries and showing off their gold jewelry, Mustangs,
pristine Nikes and fistfuls of $20 bills.
The gang has a long criminal resume beyond drug dealing, including auto
theft, violent home invasions, the robbery of other drug dealers, shooting
at police officers and murder.
Even East Palo Alto's last homicide was a Sac Street affair: On Aug. 1,
Jose Valencia, a 17-year-old who police believe was a Sac Street member and
who they said was trying to rob two men, was shot and
killed. Investigators suspect other gang members may have been involved in
the botched robbery. As the coroner counted the bullet holes in the
teenager's body in a dusty alleyway, the mailman was delivering Valencia's
GEDthe equivalent of a high school graduation.
"It's frustrating," Munsey said. "You arrest one generation and another
takes its place."
R.B. Jones, a city councilman and former mayor, lived on the street for
more than two decades, until he moved away three years ago. He clearly
remembers the bleeding kids running into his living room for refuge and the
days he and other neighbors would walk their children to and from the
corner with a loaded pistol for protection.
"Some people don't want to believe that there is a gang problem in East
Palo Alto," Jones said. "Well, they better believe it or we will never
clean this town up."
Boom! Boom! Boom! The Mustang shudders with the bass beat and the gang
fake-fights and feints around it under a streetlight shot through with
bullet holes.
During the day, the street is quiet except for a rap group practicing in a
garage. Drug sales are slow but steady, attended to by one or two
gangbangers who generally hang back toward the leafy tail of the street.
But at night, the graffiti-tagged north edge of an apartment building turns
into what used to be called "The Million Dollar Spot." There literally once
was a dark spot spray-painted there. It's gone. But it's still the place
where the younger, more brazen street faction of Sac Street make their money.
"T," the gangly, tattooed jester of the gang, takes regular snorts of the
cocaine that he sells in small baggies. By the time the rush hour unchokes
University Avenue, he is flying.
"American Airlines," he sings, "leaving from East Palo Alto to the mooooon!"
T and the other guys sober up when it comes to talking about what they are
doing there.
"We're just businessmen trying to make a livin'," he said. "How's it any
different? I have expenses."
S nodded.
"You expect me to work at McDonald's or Home Depot?" he said. "I make more
here in an hour than I would make there in a week."
Maloney said only the tip of Sac Street's drug operation is in plain
view. Behind closed doors and off the street, the gang also operates with
large quantities of the drug, kilos and tens of thousand of dollars, he
said. But at night, the gang's fortune is made in increments of $20.
Maloney said the Million Dollar Spot is an example of how ingenious and
evasive the gang has become. The spot is next to an alleyway that leads to
a maze of fences and homes, all potential hideaways. At the end of one
alleyway a car is parked so that someone can leap onto the roof and vault
over the fence.
J, with wild hair and a wilder smile, says neighbors put them up when the
cops are on the prowl.
"We watch each other's back," he said. "Everybody helps out."
Steep price for resistance
Maloney said the gang often doesn't give the local residents a
choice. When neighbors have bought pit bulls to keep Sac Street members
away, the gang has shot the dogs. Most neighbors know the price to be paid
if they run up against the gang. One man told the police he was terrified
of getting a call from them because his son might pick up the phone and
tell the gang he was talking to police.
This gives the gang physical hideouts and a neighborhood ethic that
strongly discourages giving police or prosecutors any useful
information. The gang operates right in front of everybody's front doors
and open windows. But when the bullets fly on Sacramento Street, no one
sees anything. It's safer to close the blinds and turn up the radio.
The same things that make Sacramento Street a simple target, its small size
and dead-end make it easily defended by the gang. They use lookouts on
nearby corners and on rooftops.
This job goes to the younger kids, sometimes to the children of the
block. Like S, the youngest of the group on the street, who wheels his
silver scooter through gang members' Mustangs.
Later, these children will be gang members themselves.
Where other gangs try to grow big and add members, Sac Street has a wanted
to stay small and close-knit.
"The way they came up, they were always really tight," said Munsey. "They
have known each other since they were little and trust each other and never
snitched on each other."
Maloney said Sac Street could not be easily be pigeonholed: It has
different factions, a racial makeup that is mostly Latino, with some
African-Americans and Tongans. But the group is always in flux and has an
unspoken hierarchy based more on fear than on seniority or smarts.
"It's a big puzzle that has some liquid facets to it," Maloney said. "The
shapes of the puzzle pieces are ever-changing."
At 10 p.m. it's getting colder and the gang gets quieter, sipping beer and
watching the ebb and flow of traffic.
S quietly holds his girl, one of the few who comfortably venture on the
street at night near the Million Dollar Spot.
He said he sometimes dreams of doing other things, having babies, leaving
the street life for legitimacy.
"I once took a class in architecture, I really liked that," he said. "I
could go back to school . . ."
He didn't get to finish the thought because a car was rolling up.
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Contact Sean Webby at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or (650) 688-7577.
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Toys Of The Super-Rich
by Arik Hesseldahl and Charles Dubow
This year there are 32 new entrants on the Forbes 400 list, which means
there are 32 new billionaires in the world with the ability to buy almost
anything they want. And, like everybody else, they like to buy toys.
The main difference is that they can afford to buy really, really expensive
toys.
By "toy" we mean nonessential objects that give pleasure to the owner. No
one truly needs a yacht, a private island, polo ponies or a 10,000-bottle
wine cellar. However, when one has over a billion dollars in the bank, one
no longer has to worry about need; all that matters is what one wants.
Most of the people included in the Forbes 400 list this week earned their
wealth and, being smart businessmen and women, are likely to spend their
money on things that will enhance, not detract from, their wealth. So,
while what they buy may seem to the rest of us to be "toys," to the
super-rich these possessions may actually be rather practical.
What they are really buying is convenience. Many very wealthy people are
also very busy people. They don't want to waste time flying commercial
airlines or being stuck in traffic. Owning a helicopter or private jet
makes for good business. Seen in this light, having homes around the world
is also practical. What executive doesn't tire of staying in hotels all the
time, no matter how luxurious they may be? Even a billionaire likes to
sleep in his own bed.
But most billionaires also have their toys. They wouldn't be human if they
didn't. But very few of them acquired their money in order to buy bigger,
better, more expensive toys than everyone else. With great wealth also
comes great responsibility, as well as great headaches. If they want to fly
their private helicopters to their private islands, watch their own sports
team on television, do a little sailing and unwind in their 50-room
mansions after an exquisite meal prepared by their private chefs, that's
fine. They've earned it.
Here's what billionaires spend their money on:
Private Planes
Private planes are to billionaires what Ferraris are to programmers who
have cashed in their stock options: The thing they've always wanted and now
can finally afford. The Gulfstream-V (G-V), which retails for around $40
million, is among the most popular models. Satisfied customers include
Apple Computer (nasdaq: AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs and Yahoo! (nasdaq: YHOO) unit
Broadcast.com founder Mark Cuban, who both own G-Vs. Cuban is said to have
purchased his through the Internet, which would make him the biggest
e-commerce customer of all time.
Sports Team
Call it repressed adolescent fantasies when rich guys who could never play
sports in high school can now afford to buy the whole team. Several members
of the Forbes 400 now own their own professional sports club. Microsoft
(nasdaq: MSFT) co-founder Paul Allen owns two teams, the Seattle Seahawks
and the Portland Trailblazers. Mark Cuban reappears thanks to his recent
purchase of his hometown roundball team, the Dallas Mavericks. And fellow
Texan Robert C. McNair paid $700 million for an expansion team to bring
football back to Houston in 1999.
Collecting
Many of the veterans of the Forbes 400 list, such as the Rockefellers,
Gunds and Gettyshave been collecting for years, but for the more arriviste
high-tech billionaires, it's a more recent passion. Bill Gates, co-founder
and chairman of Microsoft, was one of the first and has made several
headlines through his purchase of celebrated works of art, the most
important of which was when he paid approximately $30 million in 1994 for
Leonardo Da Vinci's "Leicester Codex."
Getaways
There is a reason why a getaway is called what it is, because people don't
want to be found. Every billionaire owns at least one, but the whereabouts
of most are jealously guarded. Media mogul Robert E. (Ted) Turner has made
no secret about his. Over the past several years, he has spent nearly half
a billion dollars acquiring land around the world, including 13 separate
ranches in six Western states, totaling 1.7 million acres, making him the
largest landholder in the United States outside of the federal government.
Clothes
It is easy to say that a billionaire, like an 800-pound gorilla, can wear
anything he wants. But, despite the general slovenliness espoused by geeks
like Bill Gates during the 1990s, billionaires are now getting older,
getting married and, unsurprisingly, dressing better. Gates himself is now
looking better, thanks in part to the skill of master tailor Gian DeCaro,
whose Seattle shop has made $2,000 hand-sewn suits for most of the city's
high-tech elite.
Yachts
Sales of yachts and other big-ticket vessels have also escalated in the
past several years, and, unsurprisingly, a number of them are now being
skippered by members of the Forbes 400. Larry Ellison, chairman and CEO of
Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL) has made plenty of waves in his quest to win back the
America's Cup. Former Netscape Chief Jim Clark decided that the 155-foot
sailboat he had built in 1998 wasn't big enough, so he recently
commissioned a multimillion-dollar, 292-foot three-master that when
completed will be the world's largest sloop.
Staff
The single biggest expense for any billionaire is manpower. Getting all the
people you need to fly your planes, build your homes, manage your ranch,
hang your paintings and cook your meals can add up. To get help getting
help, billionaires turn to companies like Starkey International, a
Denver-based firm that specializes in training and placing household
management staff around the world. Entry-level household staff people can
earn as much as $35,000 to $55,000, depending on skills, while more
experienced estate-level managers can earn up to $125,000 a year, says
founder Mary Louise Starkey. Benefits typically include not only health
care and a 401(k) savings plan, but also a separate apartment and the use
of a car.
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Air Force team teaches joint antiterrorism class
by Tech. Sgt. Ann Bennett
Air Force Print News
NAVAL AIR STATION KEFLAVIK, Iceland -- An Air Force mobile training team is
teaching Air Force and Navy people here how to perform vehicle searches and
other ways to protect themselves against terrorist acts.
The three-person training team, from the 786th Security Forces Squadron at
Sembach Air Base, Germany, travels throughout the command to conduct the
five-day United States Air Forces in Europe's Antiterrorism and Force
Protection Level II Course.
"With the number of contingencies we respond to in high-threat areas all
over the world today, this training is essential," said Tech. Sgt. Jon
Rouse, 786th SFS noncommissioned officer-in-charge of Antiterrorism and
Force Protection training.
"Terrorism is on the rise," he said. "We're not going face-to-face with a
lot of people anymore, so they're going to use the tool of the week --
terrorism -- to hit us. As Americans, we are a target and everybody wants
to take a shot at us."
The course offers 40 hours of instruction in five Department of
Defense-required areas: introduction to terrorism, terrorist operations,
detecting terrorist surveillance, individual protective measures and hostage
survival. In addition, the course covers physical security considerations,
unit protective measures, cyberterrorism and more. Students also
participate in practical exercises, such as conducting vehicle searches.
The group of 16 Air Force and 10 Navy students taking the course here are
from various units assigned to the base. Rouse said the class is open to
anyone -- not just security forces members -- because force protection is
everyone's business.
Navy Master-at-Arms First Class Victor Stewart, who works for the Iceland
Defense Force in the provost marshal office, said with the information they
are learning, they can teach other troops who will then pass it on. "This
knowledge will help them, if not here, then when they deploy or (move) from
here," Stewart said.
Staff Sgt. Daniel Bosche, 85th Security Forces Squadron NCOIC of training,
agreed that people definitely need this training. Even though the threat is
low here, he said, most are only here for a year or two and will need it
when they move on, especially if they are going to a high-threat area.
Rouse and the other two instructors conducting the class -- Staff Sgts.
Kenneth Joy and Charles Sauvage -- all agree that the most important aspect
of antiterrorism is awareness.
"People can make a difference if they just open their eyes and are aware of
their surroundings," Rouse said. Some antiterrorism measures discussed
included conducting vehicle searches, varying time schedules and routes to
and from work, and watching out for people or things that are out of place.
Terrorists aren't shadow figures, they are people and we can defeat them as
long as everybody is aware of what's going on around them, Rouse said.
The 786th SFS instructors are the only certified AT/FP Level II Course
instructors in the European Command. Besides providing mobile training in
Europe, Africa and Southwest Asia, they also offer an in-residence version
of this course. They teach Air Force, Army, Navy and Marine Corps members
as well as state department, embassy and defense courier service personnel.
This MTT course is the ninth one they have conducted away from home this
fiscal year, in addition to the 12 conducted at Sembach AB.
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Vandenberg launches pair of Minutemans
by Staff Sgt. Rebecca Bonilla
30th Space Wing Public Affairs
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AFPN) -- Two unarmed Minuteman III
intercontinental ballistic missiles launched here Sept. 28, at 1:01 and 3:01
a.m. PDT.
The launches were a team effort by members of the 30th Space Wing and the
576th Flight Test Squadron here, the 90th Space Wing from F.E. Warren AFB,
Wyo., and the 341st Space Wing, Malmstrom AFB, Mont.
This mission was a part of the Force Development Evaluation Program and
tested the reliability and accuracy of Air Force weapon systems.
The missiles' unarmed re-entry vehicles traveled approximately 4,200 miles
in about 30 minutes, hitting a pre-determined target at the Kwajalein
Missile Range in the western chain of the Marshall Islands.
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Report Says School Gun Incidents Underreported
<http://www.jointogether.org/jtodirect.jtml?U=83952&O=264622>
A new report revealed that more students are bringing guns
to school, but federal statistics don't indicate the real
numbers because principals underreport the problem.
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Homeless People Being Recruited as Drug Couriers
<http://www.jointogether.org/jtodirect.jtml?U=83952&O=264616>
Mexico's drug cartels, desperate to find drug couriers, are
tapping the homeless in the United States to make runs over
the border.
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