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Charles B. Cromwell ’02 is a history concentrator in Mather House. He is the Battalion Commander of Army ROTC and is president of the HROTCA...
...nearly half a million today - were little more than child slaves. Sein Win was press-ganged into service at age 12. He wasn't allowed to contact his family and never once was granted leave. When he initially tried to escape, he was roughed up. "Soldiers in my battalion were beaten every day," he says...
...FARC has its urban "militia" in the slums at the capital's southern end. In Washington, the Colombian ambassador is lobbying for the U.S. to drop the Plan Colombia restriction that limits U.S. aid strictly to the drug-war campaign. The Colombians want U.S. training for a new mobile battalion that would protect the country's infrastructure...
...EAST After a Lull, Violence Returns Tentative steps toward ending more than 15 months of bloodshed stumbled when two Islamic militants stormed an Israeli army outpost near the Gaza Strip, breaking a Hamas-declared suspension of violence in Israel. The attackers killed four soldiers, members of a Bedouin Arab battalion, before being shot dead. In retaliation, Israeli bulldozers destroyed 32 houses in the Gaza refugee camp that had been home to the two assailants and ripped up the runway of the Palestinian-controlled international airport...
...above the fire is gone. He says people are not panicking. They're moving fast. I grab his hand, shake it and say, "Good luck. God bless you." We sort of do a little hug. Then I shake [First Deputy Commissioner] Bill Feehan's hand, and I wave to [Battalion Chief] Ray Downey--I had just given a dinner at Gracie [Mansion] for him and all his people, about half of whom are gone now. So I wave to him, not thinking I am saying goodbye. No way. I'm actually thinking our guys are pretty safe, because...