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NATION Defense secretary to work to reduce military retention
WASHINGTON — In an action branded a backdoor draft by some critics, the military has held tens of thousand of soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines on the job and in war zones beyond their retirement dates or enlistment length.
It is a widely disliked practice that the Pentagon, under new Defense Secretary Robert Gates, is trying to figure out how to cut back on.
Gates has ordered that the practice, known as "stop loss," must "be minimized." At the same time, he is looking for ways to decrease the hardships troops and their families endure, recruit more people for a larger military and reassess how the
"it's long overdue," said Jules Lobel, vice president of the Center for Constitutional Rights and lawyer for some in the military who have challenged the policy in court.
active duty and reserves are used.
"It has in some cases made soldiers feel that they were duped or deceived in how they were recruited," Lobel said last week.
Associated Press
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Expected to be completed by Fall 2008, the new hall will house 50 men in an 18,000-square-foot, three-story building.
"It will be fun to finally have a companion hall," Sumi Haberland, fola senior, said. "We'll finally have
ad female hall on campus without a partnering all male hall. The scholarship halls provide academic-focused living on campus and are less expensive than residence halls because students perform
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Kansan staff writer Katy Blair can be contacted at kblair@kansan. com.
Edited by Carissa Pedigo
NATION Judge prevents workers from finishing projects
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — The plunging waterfalls and soaring crabs chiseled by the Merced River draw millions of visitors each year, but the crowds are precisely what threatens the waterway and the park.
In November, a federal judge barred crews from finishing $60 million in construction projects in Yosemite Valley, siding with a small group of environmentalists who sued the federal government, saying further commercial development would bring greater numbers of visitors, thus threatening the Merced's fragile ecosystem.
Associated Press
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WORLD
WORLD Attacks kills 250 militants, five children in Iraq
BAGHDAD — U.S.-backed Iraqi troops attacked insurgents on Sunday allegedly plotting to kill pilgrims at a major Shiite Muslim religious festival. Iraqi officials estimated some 250 militants died in the daylong battle near Najaf. A U.S. helicopter crashed during the fight, killing two American soldiers.
Mortar shells, meanwhile, hit the courtyard of a girls' school in a mostly Sunni Arab neighborhood of Baghdad, killing five pupils and
wounding 20.
U. N. officials deplored the attack, calling the apparent targeting of children "an unforgivable crime."
Two car bombs exploded within a half hour in the northern city of Kirkuk, killing 11 people and wounding 34, police Brig. Gen. Sarhad Qader said. Three ethnic groups — Arabs, Kurds and Turkomen — are in a bitter struggle for control of that oil-rich area.
In addition to confirming the two Americans killed in the helicopter crash near Najaf, the U.S. command announced three combat deaths from Saturday, one Marine in the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Anbar province and two Army soldiers in the Baghdad area.
Authorities said Iraqi soldiers supported by U.S. aircraft fought all day with a large group of insurgents in the Zaraf area, about 12 miles northeast of the Shiite holy city of Najaf.
Associated Press
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