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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, February 16, 1993                   TAG: 9302160044
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-8   EDITION: METRO 
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BRIEFLY . . .

The United States and Zimbabwe launched on Monday their first joint training maneuvers, which were described as a follow up to their collaboration last month in famine-plagued Somalia. U.S. Army spokesman Col. Dan Henk said 26 soldiers from the 3rd Special Forces Group from Fort Bragg, N.C., will spend 45 days in Zimbabwe with a commando battalion to learn tracking.

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