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...head of the German Marshall Fund's Turkey office, adds: "Before [the E.U. decision], everyone was holding together to get a date to start talks. Now people are becoming confused. There is fatigue, and nationalism becomes an escape route." The embattled government of the pro-Islamic Justice and Development (AK) party, led by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has added to the confusion. Eight AK M.P.s, including one Cabinet Minister, have defected to the opposition in the past six months, citing political differences. Erdogan has so far failed to appoint a chief negotiator for E.U. talks in October...
...waiting for official testing and deployment of armor approved by the Department of Defense, we immediately took measures to protect our soldiers. As contingency contracting officers, we sought, obtained, tested and procured from a couple of Iraqi vendors 1⁄4-in.-thick steel armor that stopped ballistics, including AK-47 rounds and shrapnel. Many officers and soldiers have said the local Iraqi armor saved their lives. Scott A. Meehan Major, U.S.A. Orlando, Florida, U.S. An honest answer from Rumsfeld would have gone like this: "You lack armor because we are incompetent. We expected smiles and flowers, not improvised explosive...
...York City, seems to think so. "If a salary ceiling is introduced, then you'll see that the majority of the NHL's Russian players will stay at home," he says. But most are skeptical. Says Anaheim Mighty Ducks defenseman Ruslan Salei, a Belorussian who now plays for AK Bars Kazan: "No one gets pleasure from the day-to-day grind in Russia. If the salary in the NHL is the same as here, they'll all go back." Szemberg agrees: "You should treat this as a very extraordinary situation that won't last." But as long...
...especially humvees. While waiting for official testing and deployment of armor approved by the Department of Defense, we immediately took measures to protect our soldiers. As contingency contracting officers, we sought, obtained, tested and procured from a couple of Iraqi vendors 1/4-in.-thick steel armor that stopped ballistics, including AK-47 rounds and shrapnel. Many officers and soldiers have said the local Iraqi armor saved their lives. Scott A. Meehan Major, U.S. Army Orlando, Florida...
...have been destroyed in combat in Iraq. Unlike M1 tanks, even beefed-up humvees can't always stop a rocket-propelled grenade or .50-cal. machine-gun bullet from killing those inside. But they are built to halt armor-piercing 7.62-mm rounds--the kind of bullets fired from AK-47s, an insurgent favorite. The roof is engineered to thwart the blast of a 155-mm artillery shell exploding overhead, and the floor is reinforced to protect passengers from a bomb or a 12-lb. mine buried in the road...