Roving Sands '99 scales down as troops arrive in Roswell
Troops from Indiana Mississippi New York and Virginia converge on Roswell Industrial Air Center to set up the framework for the world’s largest multinational air defense training exercise Roving Sands 99. About 1 400 troops will be stationed in Roswell with others planned to rotate in from various Army units. The exercise runs 13 days starting next Tuesday and aims to test air defense operations while local officials hope for some economic benefit.
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Roswell Industrial Air Center
Michael Fealy
Stanton Island
N.Y
Riac
Roswell
Fealy
Indiana
Mississippi
New York
Virginia
Charles Walker
Walker
Jeff Bingaman
Pete Domenici
Joe Skeen
Clifton Siggers
Chicago
Stephen Fleet
Fort McPherson
Wade Falls
Nevin Eckerman
Mobile
Ala
First Security Zions merger forms large Western bank
First Security Bank and Zions Bancorp announce a merger creating the 20th largest U.S. bank with about $40 billion in assets across 10 states, including New Mexico. The combined entity will keep the First Security name, operate 654 branches, employ roughly 17,000, and reduce jobs by 1,500 to 2,000 after regulatory divestitures and cost cuts beginning 2000.
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First Security Bank
Spencer F. Eccles
Zions Bancorp
Utah
New Mexico
Roswell
N. Main St
First Security
Albuquerque
Las Cruces
Santa Fe
Ben Haines
First Security Bank of
Southern New Mexico
Haines
Eccles
Simmons
Zions
Salt Lake City
NATO intensifies bombing as Milosevic seeks peace terms
Belgrade reports intensive NATO airstrikes across Yugoslavia with B 52s near the Kosovo border. Milosevic pledges adherence to a peace plan at a Bonn ministers meeting, while Yugoslav forces fortify border defenses and KLA activity raises ambush fears. Tanjug says strikes hit Kosovo towns and a village near Boljevac reports casualties.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
NATO
Slobodan Milosevic
Kosovo
Milosevic
Russia
Bonn
Germany
U.S
Kosovo Liberation Army
KLA
Seven vehicles damaged by fire arson suspected
A rash of vehicle fires claimed seven destroyed or severely damaged cars, with total losses pegged at 47500. Fire Marshal Mike Puckett noted the fires began near West Third and West Fourth before moving toward town center, suggesting a single arsonist or group. He cited a prior four-fire pattern on April 25 linked to the same suspect(s).
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West Fourth
Mike Puckett
Puckett
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