Britain Names Gulf Chief
<i> Reuters</i>
LONDON —
Britain on Monday named Lt. Gen. Peter de la Billiere, the army’s most-decorated active soldier and a former commander of the elite Special Air Services, as commander of its Persian Gulf forces.
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