Ken Bacon
Ken Bacon
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Obviously we are gratified that CNN retracted a report that we believe was not accurate,
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Obviously, it's up to Indonesia to provide for the security of its own people in East Timor, as well as United Nations workers and other foreigners in East Timor,
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Obviously, if we have a series of tests that are deemed to be failures we couldn't say that this was ready to deploy.
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We're looking at ways to improve the quality of life, ... Beyond pay and retirement, one is medical care, and that's a box that is yet to be checked, but it's something that the secretary and the chairman are working on, and I would hope that we'd have something to say about medical care relatively soon. But that's a work in progress.
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many of the tankers are flown by reservists.
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Secondly, ... the military is carrying out on a regular basis it's normal engagement policy, a policy with 100,000 -- nearly 100,000 troops forward-deployed in Europe and nearly 100,000 troops forward-deployed in the Asia-Pacific region.
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The principal impact we've had so far is to reduce their ability to sustain themselves, to reduce their supplies. We are now beginning to focus more on the troops on the ground. That began last night with sustained attacks on their staging areas.
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When the secretary sat down and looked at all of these openings...he felt that Ralston would bring the same qualifications to the job that General Clark did.
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We have a worldwide mission to perform, and we are not going to stop performing that mission. We can never eliminate the risk, but we can take steps to reduce the risk.
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The extent to which disparaging speech or expression with respect to sexual orientation occurs or is tolerated by individuals in the chain of command will be assessed.
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we have increased military pay and benefits and increased money for arms procurement and training.
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I think right now it is -- it is difficult to say that we have prevented one act of brutality at this stage.
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Remember, our goal is disarmament. We don't want to fuel the fighting and the arms race in Kosovo; we want to end it.