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...sultan of her home state of Perak, Malaysia. Is Dame Jade Fox next? MEL BROOKS Producers gets raves; show sold out. What's next for Broadway? Blazing Saddles, the Musical? Silent Movie, the Play? SCOTT WADDLE Submarine commander discharged without a court-martial. Guess the tribunal had too many civilian visitors that...
...because that would be an exercise of collective security. If the stable situation in their section of the Golan were to deteriorate into conflict, Furusho's men are allowed to shoot to kill only in self-defense. The Canadians have orders to use lethal force to protect themselves, U.N. civilian employees and the Japanese. That's one reason why the guard at Camp Zirouani's gate is always Canadian. "Japanese troops can't work together with other troops," says Gen Nakatani, who was in the army for four years and, as a member of parliament, has visited the Golan contingent...
...Kerrey opines, in the Times story, that the civilians of the village his men attacked were, in all probability, Vietcong supporters. And a local woman interviewed for the story makes no bones about the fact that her husband was a guerrilla. Because the Vietcong were not an invading force from the north; they were an indigenous guerrilla army that survived, prospered and the ultimately prevailed because of the support they received not only from their compatriots and commanders in the North or from Moscow and Beijing, but, more important, from within the civilian population of the south...
...people in South Vietnam had continued to back the communists and created a support base for their insurgency. Never mind the fantasies of the politicians; when those U.S. troops arrived it soon became clear that in many cases the enemy they had been sent to fight was also the civilian population they'd been sent to protect...
...bombing range located on Vieques Island since 1941, has compromised the health of islanders. The U.S. military insists the exercises are not harmful and cannot be carried out anywhere else without compromising national security. In Vieques, two years after a stray Marine Corps bomb killed a civilian security guard, the battle lines haven?t budged...