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...United Nations has estimated that 200,000 children under the age of 15 are bearing arms around the world. The Salvadoran army has forcibly conscripted boys not yet 18, while soldiers as young as 13 have sworn allegiance to Ethiopian leader Mengistu Haile Mariam. But most child warriors belong to rebel groups, where how much they fight depends on how desperately their services are needed. The mujahedin of Afghanistan have boys as young as + nine battling Kabul. In Burma twelve-year-olds are recruited by the Karen rebels to defend their jungle territory. In El Salvador the F.M.L.N...
...goes with them. Combat has changed from bare knuckles and knives to random shots at an enemy who is tracked from a distance, is usually faceless and is therefore all the easier to gun down without remorse. Not all gang members deal drugs, just as not all drug dealers belong to gangs, but the flow of drug money has infiltrated every crevice, creating a hyperinflation of shooting...
Every war has rules of engagement. Even the random bursts of street violence in Belfast follow a certain code. Chuckie, 11, explains how it works. When instructed to blockade a street, it is O.K. to steal public vans and buses but not private cars, because those, he says, "could belong to one of your own." The summer he turned ten, Chuckie came upon three teenagers in ski masks hijacking a plumber's van. He impulsively flung himself into the back of the truck; after the hijackers crashed the van and set it on fire, Chuckie helped pour gasoline...
Last week the network took a big step toward acknowledging that fact by outlining a plan that could lead to her becoming co-anchor of the evening newscast. Officially, the anchor's chair will continue to belong only to Tom Brokaw, who has held the post since 1982. But to boost ratings and, NBC said, to exploit Brokaw's skills as a reporter, the network plans to send him out on the road far more often: at least three times a month. Whenever he is away, Pauley will serve as "sub-anchor." Says Nightly News executive producer Steve Friedman...
...there is deep concern about the "continuity of the Christian presence and witness in this region." At an assembly of the church council in January, Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Protestant and Anglican leaders vowed, "We shall stay in these lands, according to the will of God. This is where we belong and where we are rooted...