From: bergman@AFPAN.PA.AF.MIL (CMSgt Mike Bergman)
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Subject: AFIS Press Pack 09/21/92
Date: 27 Aug 92 20:54:38 GMT
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Press Pack #38 for the Week of September 21, 1992

     This is the electronic edition of "Press Pack," which also is
published weekly in camera-ready form by the American Forces
Information Service, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense
(Public Affairs), 601 N. Fairfax St., Room 312, Alexandria, VA
22314-2007.
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Improving the Way Infantrymen Are Equipped

By Jim Garamone
American Forces Information Service

     Luke Skywalker, look out.  The image and equipment of American
service members will make a quantum leap into the 21st century if
equipment now under development is adopted.
     The Natick (Mass.) Research, Development and Engineering
Center, along with other Army labs and centers, is working on
clothing and equipment that could revolutionize the way
groundpounders of any service perform their mission.
     The equipment marks the first time the military has looked at
the foot trooper as a system.  The new equipment is head-to-toe and
from the skin out.
     In the past, the approach to uniforms and equipment was
piecemeal:  Today's load-bearing equipment was developed in the
1940s, the protective gear in the 1960s. Communications gear and
weapons were tacked onto the outfit, and the soldier had to adapt.
     "No one piecemealed the F-15 fighter together or a main battle
tank.  When engineers designed the F-15, they looked at the pilot
as part of the system," said Army Maj. Dan Fisher, infantry
training operations officer with the project.  "We're doing the
same with the soldier.  We're looking at the soldier as a system.
     "It was a finger-in-the-dike approach," Fisher said.  "If
infantrymen needed something, it was provided and tacked onto
everything else.  It was a short-term approach, there was nothing
long term."
     The Army's Infantry School at Fort Benning, Ga., is sponsoring
the change.  Researchers have developed an advanced technology
demonstration that will show the capabilities of the various
sub-systems making up the ensemble in an operational environment.
The seven-week demonstration is set for September through November.
It will include target detection, engagement, land navigation,
field exercises and mobility events following two weeks of
intensive training.  If approved, soldiers, sailors, Marines and
airmen will see the results by the end of the decade.
     The system is modular.  Infantrymen can take just what they
need for a specific mission.  The equipment can be mixed and
matched depending on the mission, threat expected, weather and any
special details that must be accomplished.  "We like to say
infantrymen can dress up or down for whatever party they're going
to," Fisher said.
     Starting at the skin, researchers have devised an active
cooling vest.  "This is a T-shirt with a cooling vest built in,"
said Cynthia Blackwell, a specialist on the project.  The cooling
system filters and circulates outside air through the vest.  The
T-shirt will be made of material that will wick moisture away from
the skin, and the ambient air vest will capitalize on this process.
     Next is a two-piece chemical vapor undergarment set that
protects soldiers from chemical vapor.  On top of this is the
advanced combat uniform.  "It will be in the same configuration as
the current BDU but with more advanced material that is flame
resistant," Fisher said.  "It will also provide protection against
liquid chemical agent."
     On top is the ballistic protective vest.  The vest will
incorporate ammunition-carrying capabilities and have attachment
points for ancillary gear.  It will also provide flechette
protection in addition to the fragmentation protection provided
today.  "The vest opens at the side, so soldiers can cool off and
still get protection," Blackwell said.  "It will carry the basic
load of an infantryman -- ammunition, hand grenades and whatever --
and it can be modified as needed."
     The outermost layer is the advanced shell garment.  This
garment provides environmental protection as well as liquid and
aerosol chemical protection.  It can be worn over or under the
vest.  Gaiters -- a sleeve fitting over the boot that ends at the
knee -- completes the outer level of protection.
     Researchers also developed two types of gloves for the system.
Infantrymen using the combat glove will be able to feel and pick up
things much easier than today, Blackwell said.  The chemical glove
protects wearers in a high-threat environment.  "For footwear,
we're looking at a new integrated combat boot with steel toes and
speed-lace design," Blackwell said.  The boot will be flame
resistant and include environmental protection.
     Topping this all off is a helmet.  But calling this simply a
helmet is like calling the Grand Canyon a ditch.  It's loosely
based on today's Kevlar helmet and is called the integrated
headgear subsystem.  Its components include a ballistic shell and
electro-optic subcomponent visor, which has a helmet-mounted
display.  In addition, there is communications gear, image
intensification, enhanced hearing and hearing protection.  Also, it
integrates an advanced chemical protective mask with positive
pressure breathing.
     Infantrymen can use two types of sensors with the system.  The
image intensifier is mounted within the helmet system.  The thermal
weapon sight is mounted on the weapon.  Both are wired into the
helmet-mounted display.  Whichever way the weapon points, so will
the thermal weapon sight.  Soldiers, therefore, do not have to be
looking at a target to shoot it.  They will be able to shoot around
corners.  Soldiers use a laser aiming light to help acquire the
target with the image intensifier.  Officials believe all this will
enhance the soldier's ability to engage a target in less than
optimal conditions -- smoke, haze, fog.
     Infantrymen may carry computers into battle.  The computer
will contain an electronic compass, global positioning, digital
mapping -- complete with overlays and unit designators --
information management and already formatted reports.  When used
for global positioning, it allows soldiers to keep track of the
battlefield.  Leaders can get a handle on where their men are, and
when combined with the communication gear, the system expands the
area any unit can cover effectively.  Computer images can also be
displayed on the helmet-mounted display.
     The computer has a video capture capability.  Soldiers can
literally take a picture of the battlefield or significant terrain
features and send it to whoever needs it.  "(Confederate Lt. Gen
Stonewall) Jackson was killed because he was up on the front line
trying to get a clear picture of the battlefield," Fisher said.
"(Army Gen. H. Norman) Schwarzkopf had to get into a helicopter and
overfly the front lines during Operation Desert Storm to understand
what was really happening on the ground.  With this system,
accurate, near real-time information will be available to any level
commander."
     Developers made the system easy to use.  "It's in the language
of the soldier," Blackwell said.  "But (developers) have also been
aware of the dangers of information overload.  We can build in
protocols so those who don't need the information won't get it."
     Both Fisher and Blackwell stress that while everything in the
system is possible, some portions of the system may not enter
production.  "Right now it's just a demonstration of the
capabilities," Fisher said.  "Officials will look at what's offered
and decide which components are needed, are producible and
cost-effective.  We'll move on from there."


DoD Child Care Fees Go Up Across the Board

By Master Sgt. Linda Lee, USA
American Forces Information Service

     Child care on military installations will cost about $2 more
per week beginning this fall.
     DoD bases rates for child care on a family's total income;
they fall within five ranges.  The minimum and maximum fee charged
for each range is going up $2, said Linda Smith, DoD's deputy
director of family policy and support for child development and
youth activities.
     The Military Child Care Act of 1989 standardized DoD child
care fees worldwide and required fees be based on family income.
DoD set graduated fees based on income.  With the coming increase,
for example, a family in the lowest income range, $11,000 or less,
would pay $33 to $41 per child per week, based on the rate set by
the installation.  A family with an income over $55,000 would pay
$72 to $83 per child.
     Each installation sets its own child care rate within the
allowed fee ranges depending on labor costs and other variables,
Smith said.  Some installations may not raise their rates, she
added.  For example, installations that charged high-end rates last
year might not need to increase rates to cover costs.
     Child care facilities in high-cost areas such as Hawaii and
Alaska can use either the high-cost fee ranges or up to the maximum
amount of the cost-of-living-allowance to determine child care
costs.  Smith noted there were a few problems in high-cost areas
last year when some facilities combined both to set fees.
     "It's a loophole we closed," said Smith.  "We made it very
clear that they may not use both simultaneously; it's one or the
other."
     Some parents who pay more complain about subsidizing other
people's children, said Smith.  Actually, DoD subsidizes all the
children -- Smith estimated the real cost of child care is $100 per
child per week. "The difference results from the amount of DoD
subsidy we receive for each child," she said.
     The military operates 748 centers at 386 locations.  Overall,
the centers have 66,210 spaces for children, from newborn to age
12.
     The average cost for on-base child care last year ranged from
$39 for the lowest income group to $80 for the highest income
earners, said Smith.  For each income range last year, beginning
with those that made $11,000 or less, the average cost was $39,
$45, $56, $68 and $80.  The average cost for child care across DoD
last year was $50.40.
     Beginning this fall, the rates for regularly scheduled child
care services on base are:
     Income range        Standard fees       High-cost fees
Up to $11,000            $33 - $41           $36 - $45
$11,001 - $27,000        $37 - $47           $40 - $50
$27,001 - $40,000        $48 - $59           $51 - $63
$40,001 - $55,000        $60 - $71           $64 - $76
$55,001 and over         $72 - $83           $77 - $88

END


Can Equipment Stand The Heat, the Cold And Swirling Sand?

By Evelyn D. Harris
American Forces Information Service

     Outside, the Florida sun beats down, and the 85-degree
temperature feels much hotter.  But Kirk Velasco works inside,
wearing an Arctic parka to protect himself from minus 65 degree
temperatures and biting winds to test an F-117A stealth fighter.
     Nearby, other personnel have just subjected the Army's Air
Defense Anti-Tank System to swirling sandstorms.
     Velasco, a mechanical engineer, directs the McKinley Climatic
Laboratory at Eglin Air Force Base.  Completed in May 1947, the
laboratory was renamed in 1971 to honor Air Force Col. Ashley
McKinley, one of its pioneers.  Before McKinley and others created
the lab, tests were conducted outdoors.  Researchers were at the
mercy of Mother Nature.  More important, they could not duplicate
test conditions time after time.  The indoor facility at Eglin gave
them that flexibility.
     The first tests in 1947 included the B-29 bomber, the P-51
fighter, the Sikorsky R-5D helicopter, trucks, tanks and clothing.
Since then, the staff has tested more than 350 aircraft and 2,000
pieces of equipment.  These include the Apollo capsule and
insulating materials for the NASA space shuttle, bomb shelters for
the Defense Nuclear Agency and even commercial tires the Army
considered buying.
     Foreign governments can use the facility for a fee only if
American forces will use the foreign equipment as well, said
Velasco.  For example, a Canadian company is building the Air
Defense Anti-Tank System for use by Canadian and U.S. forces.
Mounted on an M-113 armored personnel carrier, the system includes
infrared sensors, a laser target designator and laser-guided
missiles.
     Velasco said McKinley still has the largest test chamber in
the world and can simulate the broadest range of climatic
conditions.
     "We can bring our facility down to minus 105 degrees
Fahrenheit and up to plus 170 degrees Fahrenheit," he said.  "It is
usually easier for us to simulate heat.  It normally takes 24 hours
to get to minus 65 degrees and 12 hours to get to plus 140.
     "We can simulate fog, rainstorms, snowstorms and sandstorms.
We have several kinds of sand and dust, so we can simulate
appropriate conditions for beach landings or another Desert Storm,"
said Velasco.
      The lab has six test chambers.  The large main chamber can
hold the C-5A Galaxy, the Air Force's largest transport plane.  The
main chamber is 252 feet wide, 201 feet long and 70 feet high in
the center, and has 55,000 square feet of usable floor space.
     Researchers use McKinley's smaller chambers for altitude
testing and testing tanks, trucks and other vehicles.  In earlier
days, humans sat in McKinley's altitude chamber, but now, it is
used only for equipment.  The chamber can duplicate altitudes up to
75,000 feet, with temperatures down to minus 94 degrees Fahrenheit.
It can also simulate rapid decompression, going from 8,000 feet to
40,000 feet in 3.5 seconds.
     Recently, the lab tested plastic bags used to carry equipment
at high altitudes.  The bags popped like balloons.  The designers
then gave the bags air-vent holes, which relieved the
excess-pressure problem.
     Velasco said the refrigeration units for the large test
chamber could cool 3,000 ordinary homes.  The three main
refrigerator units are each about 35 feet tall and 20 feet wide.
They are backed by a 25,000-ton cooling system that provides
conditioned air needed for jet engine operation.  Large, steel
ducts remove exhaust fumes from the chamber.  Heaters can deliver
32,000 pounds of steam per hour for heat tests.
     The lab has a staff of six engineers, one technician and a
secretary.  Five employees operate the computer system, which can
monitor 400 channels of data every three seconds.
     Velasco said his staff builds some of its own test support
equipment, such as rain frames, icing frames and solar frames.
Wind machines are the same kind used in Hollywood.  The snow
machines are the same kind used at ski resorts.  They are mounted
on large, motorized tricycles so the snowfall can be directed
exactly where needed.  The lab staff uses the aircraft's own jacks
to support aircraft above the floor.  They tie the craft down so
engines, rotor blades or propellers can operate while the craft
remains stationary.
     Because the laboratory's services are in great demand, tests
are often scheduled a year or more in advance.  Velasco said the
staff is working hard to complete tests by December 1993, when the
lab will be closed for two years for major repairs and upgrading.
     "We've been making fixes all along," he said.      "We
replaced a third of the main floor where it was sinking two years
ago, but the rest of the floor still needs repair.  The roof is
corroded, and the insulation is no longer as effective as it should
be.  After 45 years of constant use, it needs a major overhaul.
We're going to close down and fix it right.  We hope to keep using
this place well into the next century."


Report Examines Women's Role in Persian Gulf War

By Jim Garamone
American Forces Information Service

     A DoD study on women's performance during the gulf crisis
shows they were less deployable than men and had a higher
return-from-theater rate -- but both rates were small and did not
hamper military operations.
     Christopher Jehn ordered the report -- "Utilization of
American Women in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm."  Jehn
is assistant secretary of defense for force management and
personnel.  The President's Commission on the Assignment of Women
in the Military, the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the
Services, Congress, the military services and DoD will use the
report -- with other sources of information -- when formulating
policy.
     The Persian Gulf war was the first large-scale deployment
featuring a significant number of women.  More than 40,000 American
women deployed with their units to the gulf region.  The report
says this was the largest deployment of military women in U.S.
history.  Women made up more than 7 percent of all U.S. forces in
the area.
     The deployment allowed the United States to track questions
that have been raised for years.  In the past, critics of women in
the military said they would not deploy easily.  Further, once
deployed, these theorists said, women would experience a higher
early return from deployment rate than men.  Finally, critics
raised many questions about pregnancy rates during a long
deployment.  Some contended women would get pregnant to avoid duty.
     Medical problems prevented more service members from deploying
than any other reason.  Information indicates more than 2 percent
of men and 9 percent of women considered for deployment were not
deployed due to medical reasons.  The Army, Navy and Marine Corps
kept specific figures for pregnancy.  Pregnancy accounted for about
half of the medically nondeployable women.  Even with pregnancy out
of the picture, 4.5 percent of the women considered for deployment
were unable to go vs. 2 percent of all men.
     "One problem with the deployment figures is that each service
has a different definition," Jehn said.  "Sometimes the definition
differed within the services and was different between the active
component and the reserve component."
     As an example, Jehn pointed to a unit that had to send a
detachment to the gulf.  He said the commander would look through
the unit and decide who was deployable.  "He's not going to send
the man who sprained his knee, he's not going to send the man who
is just getting over the flu, he's not going to send the woman who
just gave birth.  So when he puts the detachment together, they are
100 percent deployable."
     Had the unit deployed rather than a detachment, the same
people would not have gone.  The unit, then, would have had a
higher nondeployment rate.
     Women were returned from deployment at a greater rate than men
also.  According to the figures available, 2 percent of men
deployed returned early.  About 2.5 percent of the women returned
early.  Jehn said medical problems accounted for most early
returns.
     The survey also shows that pregnancy rates remained constant
through Desert Shield/Storm.  "Many critics of women in the
military used the pregnancy rates as an excuse to bash the whole
concept of women in the military," Jehn said.  "In fact, there was
no difference between pregnancy rates prior to the deployment and
during the deployment."
     Jehn said he was not surprised by the general conclusions of
the report.  "Essentially, the report stated that everyone -- men
and women -- did an outstanding job in the gulf," he said.  "The
overall conclusion is the deployment went extremely well and that
our policies make sense."


DoD Drawdown Closes More Sites Overseas

American Forces Information Service

     The U.S. military's worldwide drawdown continues, as an
additional 69 European facilities and one Korean site will close or
reduce operations, DoD officials announced recently.
     The latest overseas closure list, the eighth since 1990,
raises the number of sites affected to 628, or 38 percent of DoD's
overseas facilities.  DoD officials said 592 sites are in Europe.
     The latest realignment will affect more than 7,500 people --
5,000 U.S. military personnel, 450 U.S. civilian employees and
2,300 local nationals.  DoD has eliminated more than 90,000
positions since the drawdown began.
     Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney can decide which overseas
installations and facilities to close or reduce operations at
without congressional approval.  The United States and the host
nation governments negotiate dates, closures, reductions and other
details.  When a facility or installation closes, it returns to the
host government.
     DoD officials said Camp Isbell in Seoul is the latest Korean
facility set to close.  Scheduled closures in Korea now stand at
21.
     Two facilities in Germany originally scheduled for partial
return and closure will remain open, said DoD officials.  They are
Strassburg Kaserne at Idar Oberstein and Giesel Forward Storage
Site in Giesel.

Community                    Installation

Scheduled for return to the German government

Aschaffenburg                Vielbrunn Ammunition Area
Bad Hersfeld                 Bad Hersfeld Class III Facility
Bad Kreuznach                Minick Kaserne
Bergzabern                   Boellenborn Communication Facility
Bimbach                      Bimbach Class V Storage Area
Bitburg                      Pruem Family Housing Annex
Buchbach                     Gerhardshofen Forward Storage Site
Frankfurt                    Gruenenburg Park Administrative
Facility
Frankfurt                    Heddernheim Storage Facility
Fulda                        Gerlos Ammunition Storage Area
Fulda                        Ulrichstein Billeting Area
Koblenz                      Wueschheim Air Station
Koblenz                      Wueschheim Ammunition Storage Annex
Mainz                        Dragoner Kaserne
Matheshoerlebach             Matheshoerlebach Range
Oberolm                      Oberolmerwald Class III
Pirmasens                    Pirmasens Quartermaster Facility
Schwaebisch Hall             Dolan Barracks
Schwaebisch Hall             Einkorn Training Area & AFN Facility
Schwaebisch Hall             Hessenthal Family Housing
Usingen                      Kransberg Facilities
Wiesbaden                    Camp Pieri
Wuerzburg                    Hammelburg Forward Storage
Zweibruecken                 Dietrichengen Recreation Area
Zweibruecken                 Zweibruecken Family Housing

Scheduled for partial return in Germany

Finthen                      Finthen Airfield
Hanau                        Lamboy Training Area
Kaiserslautern               Mehlingen Communication Annex

Scheduled for return in France

Avon                         Avon Operations & Maintenance Complex
Chalons-sur-Mar              Chalons "A" Farm & High Pressure
Station
Chalons-sur-Mar              Chalons "B," "C," & "D" Farms
Chateaudun                   Logron Pump Station
Donges                       Donges "A" Farm & Jetty
Donges                       Donges "B" Farm & High Pressure Pump
			       Station
Donges                       Donges "C" & "D" Farms
Donges                       Donges-Metz High Pressure Pipeline
La Ferte-Alais               La Ferte-Alais "A," "C" & "D" Farms
La Ferte-Alais               La Ferte-Alais "B" Farm & High
Pressure
			       Pump Station
La Ferte-Gauch               Augers Pump Station
Le Mans                      St. Gervais Pump Station
Pont-a-Mousson               St. Baussant "A" & "B" Farms
St. Dizier                   Laimont Pump Station
Segre                        Angrie Pump Station

Scheduled for return in Turkey

Sinop                        Field Station Sinop

Scheduled for partial return in Turkey

Ankara                       Ankara Air Station
Izmir                        Izmir Air Station

Scheduled for return in Italy

Avellino                     Avellino Service Annex
Avellino                     Mercogliano Family Housing Annex
Avellino                     Monteforte Family Housing Annex
Brindisi                     Brindisi Storage Annex
Mesagne                      Mesagne Storage Facility

Scheduled for partial return in Italy

San Vito dei Normanni        San Vito dei Normanni Air Station

Scheduled for return in the United Kingdom

Cirencester                  South Cerney Family Housing
Haverhill                    Haverhill Family Housing Annex
Newbury                      Bishops Green Family Housing Annex
Newbury                      Greenham Common Family Housing Annex

Scheduled for partial return in the United Kingdom

Campbelltown                 Machrihanish
Dunoon                       Glen Douglas
High Wycombe                 High Wycombe
Newbury                      Welford Ammunition Storage
Newquay                      St. Mawgan Main Site

Scheduled for partial return in Belgium

Liege                        Zutendaal Site

Scheduled for partial return in the Netherlands

Coevorden                    Coevorden Prepositioned Organizational
			       Materiel Storage Site



DoD Recognizes Top Anti-drug Communities
        
By Master Sgt. Linda Lee, USA
American Forces Information Service

     The partnership between military installations and local
communities to combat drugs works, said Donald Atwood, deputy
secretary of defense.
     He said DoD's awareness programs and volunteers are helping
communities win the war against drug abuse.
     Atwood was the keynote speaker at the recent DoD Military
Services Community Drug Awareness Award ceremony.  The awards
program, in its second year, honors the installations and
facilities with the best community outreach, demand-reduction and
drug awareness programs in their respective services.
     This year's winners are Fort Bragg, N.C.; Marine Corps
Logistics Base (Albany), Ga.; Bolling Air Force Base, Washington,
D.C.; and the Arizona Army and Air National Guard.  A tie vote by
the judges resulted in two Navy winners -- Naval Air Station,
Whiting Field, Fla., and the USS Truxton, Bremerton, Wash.
     Fort Bragg's Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention Control Program
works year-long in community programs such as "Just Say No,"
parent-to-parent and coordinating drug awareness weeks.  Community
partnerships, outpatient treatment for DoD civilians and training
in drug prevention for parents are a few highlights.
     The Marine Corps' Partnership in Education and Drug Awareness
Program developed by the Marine Corps Logistics Base stresses
person-to-person communication between service members and children
from local communities.  Developed in 1988, it puts the drug
prevention program on a one-to-one basis.
     At Bolling, the Community Relations Drug Free Program takes it
drug awareness message to local elementary and middle school
children through education and entertainment.  Volunteers have
performed since the program's creation in 1987.
     "Say No to Drugs" at Whiting Field has reached at least 12,000
children in the local community with information on drugs.  The
installation's security department and drug and alcohol program
adviser work with local law enforcement agencies, providing people
and educational materials to the surrounding five-county area.
     The USS Truxton's "Safety Town" provides drug awareness and
lifesaving information to schools in the local district.  The
program began as a small fair on the ship's flight deck and rapidly
expanded to a traveling fair.  More than 2,000 schoolchildren have
visited the traveling show.
     The Arizona Army and Air National Guard jointly sponsor the
Arizona Freedom Academy, founded in 1991.  Along with drug abuse
education, the program helps children gain a feeling of self-worth.
     "Programs such as `Just Say No' and outreach activities that
are expanding everyday throughout the communities surrounding our
installations are having a very important impact on this particular
problem," Atwood said.  "Every time a child thinks twice about
drugs and then just says no, you've helped protect our most
valuable national asset."
     One cannot overestimate the value of service members becoming
involved in installation and community drug programs, especially
the value to youngsters making up their minds to take or not take
drugs, said Stephen Duncan.
     "It makes a difference to them to see that somebody cares
about them," said Duncan, DoD's coordinator for drug enforcement
policy.  "That's one of the reasons for this award program, the
fact that they volunteer their own time to help others.
     "This award is to recognize the people who are out in the
trenches engaging in programs that relate to demand reduction.
They receive far less attention and thanks than do other aspects of
our drug program, especially those on the supply-reduction side,"
Duncan added.
     Many defense programs are more visible, receive more attention
and have bigger budgets than the community drug programs, Atwood
said.
     "But the satisfaction of knowing that you make a difference in
the lives of thousands and thousands of Americans is a reward in
itself," said Atwood.  "You're winning victories that pay dividends
for entire lifetimes."


Worth Repeating

"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it."
--Gen. Douglas MacArthur,
U.S. Army

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of
fear."
--Mark Twain,
U.S. author

"Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice."
--Miguel de Cervantes,
Spanish writer

"Peace has its victories, but it takes a brave man to win them."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson,
U.S. writer

"There is no duty we so much underrate, as the duty of being
happy."
--Robert Louis Stevenson,
Scottish writer


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