Archive for April, 2009
Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Top U.S. Marine defends $13 billion amphibious tank
Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:31pm BST
By Jim Wolf
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Marines must be able to storm enemy shores in amphibious vehicles such as those being built by General Dynamics Corp, the top Marine said, defending a $13.2 billion program called into question by Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
General Dynamics’ Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle, or EFV, “is […]
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009
1975: The South Vietnamese capital of Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) fell to North Vietnamese troops during the Vietnam War.
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009
I Can Relate
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Today In Anchorage
Today: Sunny. High near 55F. Winds light and variable.
Tonight: Generally clear. Low 37F. Winds NNE at 5 to 10 mph.
Tomorrow: Sunny skies. High 56F. Winds NNW at 5 to 10 mph.
Tomorrow night: Clear skies. Low 39F. Winds NNE at 5 to 10 mph.
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Far Too True
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Some Seek Help for Grandparent Caregivers
April 29, 2009
Military.com|by Bryan Mitchell
The mother of three Airmen is asking the military to extend financial assistance to grandparents who are caring for their grandchildren because of a military deployment.
“I need to have a job and these kids need to get that early education,” Rasham Prassad told Military.com in a recent interview. “We are proud […]
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Court Reins in State Secrets Privilege
April 30, 2009
Inter Press Service
NEW YORK — In what may become a landmark decision, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the “state secrets privilege” - routinely used by the government to block lawsuits against its officials - can only be used to contest specific evidence, but not to dismiss an entire suit.
The ruling, which […]
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009
JAGs: US Should Free Gitmo ‘Children’
April 30, 2009
Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS — Military lawyers for two young Guantanamo detainees urged the U.S. on Wednesday to follow protocols it signed in 2002 on child soldiers and release the juveniles being held at the U.S. military prison in Cuba.
Navy Cmdr. Walter Ruiz and Marine Maj. Eric Montalvo timed their news conference to a […]
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009
US Can’t Back Cancer Assurances to Marines
April 30, 2009
Associated Press
In an about-face, the government has disavowed a 12-year-old federal report that found little or no cancer risk for adults who lived at Camp Lejeune, N.C., where drinking water was contaminated for three decades.
Up to a million people could have been exposed to toxins that seeped from a neighboring dry cleaner and […]
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009
The Early Abbots of Cluny
The monastery of Cluny (in France, northwest of Lyons) was a center for the reform and spiritual renewal of Western monasticism in the tenth and eleventh centuries. It was founded in 909 under Abbot Berno, as a reformed monastery, observing the Benedictine Rule with a strictness unusual at the time. Many monasteries in Europe at […]