Word: ambushes
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Under a harsh military crackdown on the Islamic Front, outlawed in 1992, the battle for Algeria has only worsened. Armed militants ambush police, assassinate officials and murder intellectuals and others opposed to the fundamentalist movement. Security forces arrest suspects at will, torture prisoners and sentence alleged rebels to death in extraconstitutional courts. The government attributes the daily civilian slayings to the Islamists. But Algerian and Western sources say antifundamentalist death squads, suspected of links to the security services, also operate during the nightly curfews, kidnapping Islamists or their relatives from home and dumping their bodies nearby...
...course, was the device's military potential. But Genghis Khan as symbol stands for something much larger in the Russian psyche: a force of upheaval that can intrude as suddenly as an arctic gale or a Mongol horde. In the convulsions that wracked Moscow last week, as in the ambush that slaughtered American soldiers in distant Somalia, chaos demonstrated once more that it has long since mastered the long-distance message. Genghis Khan today not only has telephones and satellite-TV links, but uses them to wake up the world at the most inconvenient times. Civilization wishes he would hang...
...What do you think about congressional reaction to the ambush...
Police chief Willie Williams appealed to the Los Angeles public for an end to violence last week after the third armed attack on officers in two weeks. No one was injured in the latest ambush shooting, but, Williams declared, "people think it's open season on the police...
...them in black and white, represents the work of 36 photographers from 12 countries, including many whose pictures have appeared in our pages. Chosen as the emblem of the exhibit is a photo of a woman grieving at the funeral of her husband, a Croatian policeman killed in an ambush by Serbs of the Yugoslav National Army forces. It was taken by TIME's Christopher Morris, who has covered the war since its start and has provided some of its most powerful images. After the show closes in New York City on Oct. 2, it will tour the U.S., including...