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Target Practice, I.


From an on-line Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse (AFP)

French cooperative news agency. Based in Paris, it has roots in the Bureau Havas, created in 1832, which in 1835 became the Agence Havas, the world's first true news agency.
 story datelined Brisbane, Australia, on U.S. marines who allegedly shot an emu during target practice: "The emu, a large ostrich-like flightless flightless

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 bird, was shot on May 8 during warm-up training for Operation Tandem (Tandem Computers Inc., Cupertino, CA) A former major manufacturer of fault-tolerant computers founded in 1974 by James Treybig and provider of the early 21st century technology for HP's enterprise computing strategy.  Thrust.... There had also been reports of U.S. Servicemen shooting wallabies" at a previous exercise.
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Title Annotation:marines shoot emu during practice
Publication:The Progressive
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:8AUST
Date:Aug 1, 2001
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