Military Bases

A private jet thought to have four passengers aboard crashed and burned Wednesday night at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, officials said. The Citation jet may have been trying to land at Montgomery Field, the city's private aviation airport. Civilian and military rescue squads were dispatched. The crash occurred about 9:30 p.m. in an open field east of Interstate 15.

The United States and Australia have extended their agreement on two U.S. military bases for another 10 years, Prime Minister Bob Hawke told Parliament today. Hawke, who acknowledges that the bases make Australia a potential target in case of nuclear war, said the United States has agreed to allow more Australian involvement in the management of the bases at Pine Gap and Nurrungar.

The Turkish government will allow the U.S. to inspect military bases that the Bush administration asked to use for a possible attack on neighboring Iraq, an official in Prime Minister Abdullah Gul's office said Friday. The official, who asked not to be identified, said Gul signed an agreement Friday that allows U.S. officials to inspect seaports and military airfields. A 150-member U.S.

After waiting fruitlessly for two months for a recalcitrant governor to cooperate, Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama on Tuesday launched a legal process to compel landowners to renew leases on their property in Okinawa for use as American military bases. The action appeared to ensure the continued legality of U.S. use of the land. But it did nothing to placate Gov. Masahide Ota, who has used the Sept. 4 rape of a 12-year-old Okinawa girl, in which three U.S.

In the wake of U.S. bombing of terrorist sites in Afghanistan and Sudan on Thursday, Ventura County's military bases have enacted heightened security measures. Officials at the Naval Construction Battalion Center at Port Hueneme and at the Point Mugu naval base said they were ordered by the chief of naval operations to increase security for an indefinite period.

Security at Orange County, San Diego and other California military bases has heightened as local officials brace for potential terrorist attacks and the country veers toward a possible war, Pentagon officials said Friday. At Navy bases across the state, officials have issued a "condition alpha," or a low-level security alert.

Security at San Diego and other California military bases has heightened as local officials brace for potential terrorist attacks and the country veers toward a possible war, Pentagon officials said Friday. At Navy bases across the state, officials have issued a "condition alpha," or a low-level security alert.

Taking his upbeat, patriotic message on the road Friday for the first time since the Persian Gulf War began, President Bush said angrily that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has an "endless appetite for evil" and that when the war ends, "we will have taught a dangerous dictator . . . that what we say goes." Bush insisted, as he has previously in private, that he will only begin a ground war in the Gulf "if necessary, and when we decide the time is right."

The United States faces a growing crisis over its efforts to maintain a worldwide network of military bases--a crisis with far-reaching implications for American foreign policy, defense strategy and the federal budget. Even as U.S.

With the November elections in sight, Congress has again rejected the Defense secretary's pleas for another round of base closures. Budget analysts predict the Defense Department will be forced to "starve" individual bases for lack of funds. Meanwhile, numerous military installations have launched expansion initiatives. Why does the military need more land when it wants to close bases? There is a fundamental problem in the stationing of our military forces.