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After wresting independence from France in 1962, Algeria established itself as an exemplar of Third World socialism, often criticizing U.S. foreign policy and breaking diplomatic ties with Washington during the 1967 Six-Day War. While Algeria renewed relations with the U.S. seven years later, it is Colonel Chadli Bendjedid, President since 1979, who has launched his country on a more moderate course. Last week Bendjedid became the first Algerian leader to make a state visit...
...Taiwan's military intelligence bureau, guilty of plotting the murder of Chinese- American Writer Henry Liu, who was gunned down at his Daly City, Calif., home last Oct. 15. The sentence: life imprisonment. Wang's two aides, Major General Hu Yi-min, deputy director of the bureau, and Colonel Chen Hu-men, another Defense Ministry official, were each given 2½-year jail terms. The verdicts came ten days after the leader of Taiwan's powerful Bamboo Union Gang, Chen Chi-li, and his lieutenant, Wu Tun, were sentenced in a civilian court to life imprisonment for carrying out the murder...
Another important step in making Harvard a more accepting place is educating students about issues of importance to the queer community. Bringing in speakers like Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer, holding a panel about queer related senior theses, and co-sponsoring a workshop on sexual violence in BGLTQ communities are all events that we hope will empower students to engage in the issues that they care about. This is especially important given the quickly changing nature of laws and campus policies regarding queer issues...
...Their tales are as old as war itself. But Landstuhl is unique because getting here fast from two time zones away can mean the difference between life and death. "If they can make it back to Landstuhl, their chance of survival is really good," says Lieut. Colonel Warren Dorlac, an Air Force trauma surgeon who has spent the past seven months operating on wounded soldiers at Landstuhl. "These guys are surviving incredible amounts of trauma, and they're doing well." Armored vehicles and protective gear mean that killer head and chest wounds are far less likely than in the past...
...small community hospital when I got here," he says. "They were focused on outpatients. There was very little war-related treatment going on." In the summer of 2003, with staff reeling from the flood of patients following the U.S.-led invasion, the hospital received another jolt to its system: Colonel Rhonda Cornum. Her appointment as head of the hospital was a sharp break after 50 years of all-male leadership. Her combat credentials were impeccable, however. As a flight surgeon on attack missions during the 1991 Gulf War, Cornum's Black Hawk 214 was shot down over southern Iraq. Five...