as part of the United Nations Preventive Deployment Force, New voiced concerns about the lawfulness of the Army's participation in the mission. In particular, he was troubled that wearing U.N. insignia as part of his uniform would manifest an involuntary or fictional shift in his allegiance from the government of the United States to the United Nations. Although his superiors discussed these concerns with him, they failed to alleviate them.


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Eventually New's battalion commander issued — and his company commander repeated — an order to begin wearing a special U.N. mission uniform at a battalion formation on October 10, 1995. The uniform consisted of the ordinary United States Army battle dress uniform plus a blue U.N. patch sewn on one shoulder and a blue U.N. cap. New reported forDrought's Positive Effect: Smaller Gulf Dead Zone

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Though the parched conditions have wreaked havoc on natural
habitat and agricultural crops, drought may have one upside,
bringing the fourth smallest dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico
since mapping of this annual oxygen-free zone began in 1985.

Scientists estimate the 2012
Gulf of Mexico dead zone spans an area of 2,889 square miles
(7,482 square kilometers), or just larger than the state of
Delaware.

"The smaller area was expected because of drought
conditions and the fact that nutrient output into the Gulf
this spring approached near the 80-year record low," Nancy
Rabalais, executive director of the Louisiana Universities Marine
Consortium (LUMCON), said in a statement. Rabalais led the survey
cruise that measured the dead zone.

In fact, the last time the dead zone was this small was in 2000
when it measured