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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.”
                Admiral Huntington Hardisty , U.S. Navy, Commander in Chief , U.S. Pacific Command, from Asia-Pacific 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] would include aircraft
that could perform attack, defensive, standoff jamming, and precision- strike
missions. —from Aviation Week and Space
                Technology magazine, p.26

          Author Note
     
     
                Although the B-1B bomber is now
officially called “Lancer,” the author will still use “Excalibur.”
                Every effort has been made to
present realistic situations, but all of the persons and situations presented
here are products of my imagination and should not be considered reflections of
actual persons, products, policy, or practice. Any similarity of any
organization, device, weapons system, policy, person, or place to any
real-world counterpart is strictly coincidental. The author makes no attempt