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...movement based in the dusty streets of South Africa's townships, before finding himself forced underground and eventually jailed. Circumstances forced Arafat, by contrast, almost from the outset to engage in the underground politics of conspiracy - small groups of trusted insiders launching guerrilla attacks and melting back into the civilian population. Later, as the leader of an exiled Palestinian movement more often than not at odds with its Arab hosts, those methods kept Arafat alive and maintained the coherence of a movement attempting to represent a nation that straddled the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza and a diaspora scattered...
...usually wakes up at 0530 (5:30 a.m. civilian time) each morning to gauge the ship’s overnight progress and sometimes spends all night on the bridge directing military exercises. His schedule leaves little time for him to talk to his wife Kathryn and their eight-year-old son Alexander, who live on Sasebo Naval Base in Sasebo, Japan...
...fury and frenzy of the Pacific war--the Japanese always fought to the death, avoiding shameful surrender--are not much remarked. Japanese war crimes--the 250,000 dead at Nanking, the 100,000 civilian deaths when they torched Manila--are largely elided in our popular histories. So is the fact that our Marines boiled Japanese skulls clean and carried them around as souvenirs. But this fact is undeniable: the war blanched all moral niceties from everyone's consciousness. Naturally our troops sobbed with relief when they heard the Bomb had been dropped. It was for men farther behind the lines...
...proposed budget of $208 million. No one knew how well a jingoistic American anthem would sound in the important overseas markets, "so we had to figure zero for Japan," says Disney studio chief Peter Schneider. He would later ask Bay to reshoot an inflammatory scene in which a civilian Japanese dentist working in Hawaii was depicted as a spy for his homeland...
...inspection regime designed to eliminate Baghdad's ability to threaten its neighbors and its restive citizens with weapons of mass destruction. But it's been two years since there have been weapons inspectors in Iraq, and Saddam isn't likely to allow them back any time soon. While his civilian population bears the brunt of the suffering, Saddam and his cronies profit from a sanctions-busting economy believed to be worth around $3 billion a year - and the propaganda value of being able to blame Iraqis' suffering on the West, coupled with the lucrative business opportunities created by the sanctions...