Andrew Marshall

The Bush administration has asked one of the Pentagon's most unconventional thinkers to conduct a sweeping review of the U.S. military, in the clearest indication yet that senior officials intend to shake up the nation's armed forces and the weapons they use. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has asked Andrew Marshall, head of the Pentagon's internal think tank, to deliver his preliminary recommendations by the end of next week, sources said.

The Bush administration has asked one of the Pentagon's most unconventional thinkers to conduct a sweeping review of the U.S. military, in the clearest indication yet that senior officials intend to shake up the nation's armed forces and the weapons they use. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has asked Andrew Marshall, head of the Pentagon's internal think tank, to deliver his preliminary recommendations by the end of next week, sources said.

Andrew Marshall, 19, of Middletown, N.Y., driving in his first street stock feature, was killed Saturday night in a crash at the Orange County Fair Speedway in Mechanicstown, N.Y..

Nathan C. Leites, an immigrant from Russia who became an expert on his native land by examining the motivations and intentions of Soviet leaders for the U.S. government, has died in France. He was 75 and died Friday in Avignon of pulmonary complications from Park1768846191spokesman for the Rand Corp., where Leites had been an associate since 1947.

President Bush and former First Lady Nancy Reagan presided Sunday over the christening of the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan, even though the Bush administration is studying whether the huge ships represent yesterday's answer to tomorrow's military threats. The $4-billion ship, the latest in a growing list of monuments to the ailing 40th president, is still two years away from becoming the nation's ninth nuclear-powered carrier.

PRESIDENT BUSH HAS now definitively stated that bombs known as explosively formed penetrators -- EFPs, which have proved especially deadly for U.S. troops in Iraq -- are made in Iran and exported to Iraq. But in November, U.S. troops raiding a Baghdad machine shop came across a pile of copper disks, 5 inches in diameter, stamped out as part of what was clearly an ongoing order.

Some of the key panels reviewing military strategy for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld are shying away from the kind of radical reform of the Pentagon that observers had anticipated. The study groups, which were organized at the beginning of the year and have been reporting back in recent weeks, were widely expected to urge elimination of some major weapon programs to pay for a sweeping transformation of the military.

Last Sunday, The Times published a list of dead and missing in the Sept. 11 attacks. This list updates that accounting with the names of the confirmed dead released after Sept. 15. More than 6,000 people are still unaccounted for. World Trade Center Gordon McCannel Aamoth Donald L. Adams Lee Adler Godwin Ajala Gertrude Alagero Marsh Andrew Alameno Gary Alberto Eric Allen James Ryan Allen Telmo Alvear Michael Andrews Joseph Angelini Frank Aquilino Louis Arena Adam Arias Michael J.

The arrest and eventual release of Current TV journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee by North Korea, and recent reports of North Korean and Chinese authorities cracking down on refugee networks, have renewed the public debate over how far foreign journalists should go in covering repressive nations. The leaders of countries such as Myanmar (formerly known as Burma), China, North Korea and Zimbabwe restrict foreign media access, fearing that independent interpretations of their policies and actions will threaten their rule at home and damage their reputations abroad.

So far this week, it has been unseasonably warm -- it is Scotland, after all, where summer lasts a week or so -- but the forecast for the British Open calls for partly sunny and a chance of Tiger, maybe a very good chance. He won the Open Championship in 2000, the last time it was played on the Old Course, so Tiger Woods is the safe choice this week when the 134th edition of the world's oldest major championship begins. And, as these things usually go, he's chasing history as well.

As the Army's top soldier, Chief of Staff Gen. Eric K. Shinseki is accustomed to getting in the door when he wants to tell civilian defense leaders what's on his mind. But when Shinseki asked incoming Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld earlier this year for a chance to talk in detail about one of the Army's most urgent issues--a sweeping Army reorganization now underway--he was told he would have to wait. So Shinseki waited. And according to aides, he's still waiting today.