Ken Bacon
Ken Bacon
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If we could get by with fewer troops we would, but those figures won't be known until we understand what the peace agreement is, if we get one.
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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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My understanding is that they (the government in Jakarta) have provided a battalion of forces from outside of East Timor, ... And that they were able to turn back an assault by militia groups against the U.N. people last night.
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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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Milosevic should understand the seriousness of our efforts and our determination to keep this fight going until we achieve our goals.
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My expectation is that based on the amount of chemical weapons in the pit and then what we've been told about wind patterns on that day and the disposition of forces ... there could be a very large number of troops included in a possible cloud area.
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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'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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There are heavy concentrations of artillery along the border between Kosovo and Macedonia. There are only 14 roads into Kosovo -- two from Macedonia. These roads are mined. The bridges are mined. There are built in ... tank and artillery positions along lines of communication.
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What kind of person would use humans as shields?
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There is no such thing as clean combat. We have the best trained forces, but there is no way to avoid collateral damage or unintended consequences when weapons are employed to solve what might have been solved diplomatically.
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This visit did not comply with the rules or conventions under international law, the Geneva Convention, in that they were not allowed to see these prisoners alone, they were escorted by representatives of the Yugoslav government. The rules say they should be allowed to meet with them alone.