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also to Orbital Sciences Corporation for information on the Pegasus
air-launched space booster; To my executive assistant, Dennis Hall, for
his hard work and support.

ACTUAL NEWS EXCERPTS Date: 5/21/90 PENTAGON DECLARES PHILIPPINES
"IMMINENT DANGER" AREA WASHINGTON (MAY 18) UPI-The Defense Department
designated the Philippines Friday as an area of imminent danger for
special pay purposes, which means US military and civilian employees
will be getting slightly larger paychecks. The Pentagon said it took the
action because of the "current unstable conditions" in the Philippines,
where three American servicemen have been killed in politically
motivated attacks this month alone. Imminent danger pay is an additional
15 percent of basic salary for American citizens who are department
employees and $110 per month for all US military personnel. Date:
5/22/90 "Well, first in my mind, the communist dream in the Philippines
will always be there. The communist dream of taking over and dominating
the country will always be there because you can't kill an ideology."
General Renato S. de Villa, Chief of Staff, Armed Forces of the
Philippines, from Asia-Pacific Defense Forum, U.S. Pacific Command,
Winter 1989-1990 Date: 11/2/90 ... Turmoil in China... combined with
speculation about U.S. forces departures from the Philippines, have
merged to cause a new appreciation for U.S. regional security presence.
. . . I believe there is a growing realization in the Pacific that
U.S. presence cannot be taken for granted. If the U.S. presence is
substantially reduced, many Pacific nations perceive the danger of other
nations moving into the vacuum created by our departure, with a
potential result of conflict and instability." 22 ACTUAL NEWS EXCERPTS
Admiral Huntington Hardisty, U.S. Navy, Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific
Command, from Asia-Paczfic Defense Forum, U.S. Pacific Command, winter
1989-1990 Date: 11/6/90 MELEE MARS INAUGURATION OF AUTONOMY IN SOUTHERN
PHILIPPINES COTABATO (Nov 6) REUTER-Police punched and clubbed 17 Moslem
students before dragging them off by their hair on Tuesday after they
disrupted President Corazon Aquino's inauguration of an autonomous
government in the southern Philippines, witnesses said. The students,
members of an organization supporting Moslem rebels demanding a separate
state on Mindanao island, chanted slogans against the autonomous
government about 20 meters from where Aquino was speaking. Manila has
set up the autonomous government, dominated by Moslems, as a way to end
separatist violence on Mindanao, the second-largest island in the
Philippines. The government, headed by former Moslem rebel commander
Zacaria Candao, can pass its own laws, collect taxes and license fees,
and set up a regional police force in the four predominantly Moslem
provinces on Mindanao island it controls. Manila would retain control of
defense and foreign policy. -from U.S. Naval Institute Military
Database Defense News. Date: 14 January 1991 AIR FORCE TO CREATE TWO NEW
COMPOSITE AIR WINGS BY 1993 WASHINGTON-The U.S. Air Force will develop
by 1993 two composite tactical air wings that combine different types of
aircraft in the same unit. The new wings will serve as prototypes for
the possible reorganization of the service's tactical force structure
along more mission-oriented lines. . . . [The composite air wings]