Military Single: Blast from the past Last hurrah for reunited Mouse, the Boys & Brass?
Standing side-by-side on the rehearsal stage, microphones in hand, Maurice Samples and Pete Rowland did what they had done almost nightly in the late '60s and early '70s.They sang the words to Soul Man, the 1967 Sam and Dave hit, while behind them guitars, drums, a keyboard and horns performed the familiar notes."I'm a soul man," Sam and Dave sang in the original.But now, Samples and Rowland were in a playful mood, so they...
Military Single: CHILDREN OF MILITARY PARENTS HAVE BECOME A WAR ISSUE
About 16,300 military single parents and 1,200 military couples with children have been assigned to duty in the Persian Gulf, according to Pentagon statistics released yesterday.What happens to the children in these families has become an emotionally charged issue for Americans in the war. But contrary to the image of mothers in camouflage fatigues kissing their youngsters goodbye, a majority of the single-parent families separated by the war are headed by fathers, not mothers.In...
Military Single: Kemner rejoins U.S. women's squad, knows her teammates like a book
Tough test looms in weeklong meet
Excited to be rejoining the U.S. women's national volleyball team during its Grand Prix tour this year, Caren Kemner packed her bags. She threw in clothes, equipment and the usual stuff like a toothbrush and toothpaste. After one glance in the team's locker room, Kemner realized she had packed too lightly. She should have thrown in a book, too. "They're a bunch of librarians," Kemner said, recalling her first...
Military Single: Congo Leader Loses
KEYWORD HIT Congo's Denis Sassou-Nguesso, whose military, single-party and Marxist regime has ruled since 1979, has become the third mainland African leader to be voted out of office.Results of presidential elections announced over the weekend showed him finishing a poor third, leaving Pascal Lissouba and Bernard Kolelas to contest a second round of voting scheduled for Sunday.The winner of the second round would become Congo's first freely elected president...