Doctors Link Gulf War Ailments with Uranium Poisoning
Subject: Doctors Link Gulf War Ailments with Uranium Poisoning
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The Stars and Stripes
September 12, 2000
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Today's Stories:
* Doctors Link Gulf War Ailments with Uranium Poisoning
* Gulf War: Secret History Week 7: HUMINT
* Veterans Affairs: Project Independence Targets Women Vets
* Career Central: The Power of Questions (Part 1 of 2)
* Arts & Leisure: A Mighty Book on Military Women
* History: 'An Endless Experimental Orgy'
"Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan."
-John F. Kennedy
Doctors Link Gulf War Ailments with Uranium Poisoning
By David Eberhart
Stars and Stripes Veterans Affairs Editor
Dr. Asaf Durakovic told a gathering of the European
Association of Nuclear Medicine that shells coated with
depleted uranium (DU) to enable penetration of thick armor
exploded into particles which "became part of atmospheric
dust" after the shells hit their targets.
"Some of those particles were inhaled and stayed in the
lungs...where they can cause cancer, and some entered
into the bloodstream and affected kidneys and bones."
Gulf War: Secret History Week 7: HUMINT
By William M. Arkin
Special to The Stars and Stripes
It is an article of faith that human rather than technical
intelligence provides the best insight in the case of
personality-based regimes. And all seem to agree that Desert
Shield and Desert Storm were not human intelligence's
(HUMINT's) shining moment. Gen. Schwarzkopf, in his
autobiography "It Doesn't Take a Hero" (Bantam, 1992),
says that "our human intelligence sources were poor" inside
Baghdad for getting information about American hostages.
Veterans Affairs: Project Independence Targets Women Vets
By David Eberhart
Stars and Stripes Veterans Affairs Editor
Women veterans interested in new careers are being
encouraged to consider Project Independence, a program
under which the Racine County, Wis., Workforce Development
Center helps women get started in nontraditional jobs.
Career Central: The Power of Questions (Part 1 of 2)
By Tom Wolfe
Stars and Stripes Career Coach
Among the most powerful tools in your career transition
toolbox are the questions you will ask throughout the
job-hunting process. A tool needs to be both well honed
and appropriate for the task at hand in order to be
effective. Let's look at the power of questions--
dual-purpose tools in your transition toolbox.
Arts & Leisure: A Mighty Book
Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing
Women's Lives
By Cynthia Enloe
University of California Press
2000, 418 pages, $45
Reviewed by J. Michael Brower
Special to the Stars and Stripes
Clark University professor Cynthia Enloe explores the
causes and ramifications of the militarization of what
was once patronizingly known as the "fair sex." Her
exhaustive study covers almost all of the most
controversial aspects of expanded roles for women on
the doorstep of 21st-century warfighting.
History: From the Archives
'An Endless Experimental Orgy'
By Shelley Davis
Stars and Stripes Historian
An article from the Oct. 22, 1925, Stars and Stripes
highlights a debate that continues today: Should advances
in aircraft technology be in the hands of the military
services or private firms?
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