61. Covert financial aid for the alliance approved by President Bush is only trickling in, and alliance officials complain that little new military equipment has arrived. 62. Did law enforcement mislead Defense Department officials to obtain the use of tanks and other military equipment? 63. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has wisely decided to order all services to keep civilian visitors away from the controls of military equipment. 64. Effective at softening up troops and destroying military equipment and infrastructure, it cannot topple existing governments. 65. Gradert asserted that Nichols had many of the items on hand because he sells military equipment but admitted he may face a misdemeanor charge for having the blasting caps. 66. Gramajo, now retired from the army said he advised the station chief to win over the hard-liners with money and military equipment. 67. He cited declines in defense budgets and overall force levels over the last decade coupled with aging military equipment and frequent deployments abroad on peacekeeping missions. 68. He denied, also in strong terms, that any military equipment or ammunition was stored on the grounds of any Yugoslav hospital. 69. He was also linked to purchases of faulty military equipment in return for kickbacks. 70. He retired from the Air Force last year and joined the board of the Thiokol Corp., which makes spacecraft engines and military equipment. |
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