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...Peruvian commandos waited all night under the Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima, hunkered down in a winding, steel-braced tunnel complex. Loaded down with weapons, ammunition and body armor, they still had enough room to rest and try to sleep. The tunnels were the work of professional miners, and the troops could walk upright, two abreast, through lighted and ventilated chambers. In the morning, after a final planning session, their officers slipped through nearby buildings and into the tunnels to join the 140 army, navy and air-force special-operations forces underground for the attack. Lieut. Colonel Juan Valer...
...drop in membership and a massive $56 million debt. If successful in his bid for control, Knox and his followers, labeled by LaPierre as "a band of militia gun devotees," could drastically change the face of the group by opposing such things as the prohibition on the manufacture of armor-piercing bullets and mandatory child-safety locks on handguns...
...didn't take a politician of Churchillian stature to figure out what needed doing. The Labour Party hadn't won a national election in Britain for 23 years. Its tattered platform of watered-down Bolshevism had become as irrelevant as the suits of armor in the Tower of London...
Western experts doubt claims by the N.C.R. that it is funded by the Iranian exile community, contending that Saddam pays for its operations. Most of the N.L.A.'s armor and other equipment, they say, was captured from Iran toward the end of the eight-year Iran-Iraq war that ended in 1988. The Massouds "are simply not a viable alternative to the current regime because of their ties to Iraq," says Eisenstadt. Clawson says the People's Mujahedin's radical-left politics is also out of step. "Their day is past," he says...
Much of science-fiction/fantasy anime is marked by charming anachronisms, such as people having swordfights in the most technologically advanced armor. Perhaps this is a Japanese attempt to have things both ways--to be technologically advanced but still maintain a soul...