Ken Bacon
Ken Bacon
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We believe that both countries would be better off if they took steps to reduce tensions, not increase tensions.
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We would take almost any reasonable action before reaching a point of having to make a decision about destroying an American plane over American air space.
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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 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'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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we have increased military pay and benefits and increased money for arms procurement and training.
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Admiral Fry, or someone working with him, said, 'You know, if this thing suddenly veers off course and heads to Chicago, we'll have some really tough decisions to make,'
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It's a sort of a self-contained, quickly movable team that can go in to an emergency situation abroad, set up a communications, set up an operations center, do some of the initial investigative work.
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I think it is fair to say that things were in their expected position -- which was moved, ... They have been moving their military assets, including tanks and artillery -- and other things. Dispersion is a standard defensive tactic, and the Serbs are very good at dispersion.
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Material that should have been demilitarized has not been properly demilitarized and is sold when it shouldn't have been.
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By international law, the Geneva Convention applies to all periods of hostilities.
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We have analyzed yesterday's information and found that an AGM-130 (missile) did miss its target and explode in a residential neighborhood several kilometers from its target.
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The question you all will have is, 'Isn't this a step toward the deployment of ground troops in Kosovo?' ... The answer is, absolutely not. This is pure and simple an expansion of the air operation.