Word: colonels
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...Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi must have seemed an incongruous sight—bedecked in his lavish, though traditional, gold attire with trademark sunglasses, the leader of Libya humbly laid his head down on the table at the African Union summit in Ethiopia in a gesture of diplomatic defeat. The normally confident Gaddafi was facing stiff resistance to his newest geopolitical plan, the United States of Africa. Unsurprisingly, many African nations have reacted coolly to Gaddafi’s plans for a politically united Africa, with the relatively wealthy and stable nations of South Africa, Ethiopia, and Kenya taking a prominent...
...advances the mental health community has made in recent decades, including pharmacological treatment, the biggest factors influencing suicides rates seems far beyond its reach. "Suicide rates appear to be quite strongly associated with broad sweeping cultural trends rather than more minor things such as a treatment," notes retired Colonel David Litts, who played a key role in reducing suicide within the Air Force by 60% in five years. (The overstretched Army, by contrast, is still experiencing historically high rates.) "So in the face of this economic turmoil perhaps the most important thing we can do is relieve the financial strains...
Days later, at a press conference back in Goma, MONUC spokesman Lieut. Colonel Jean-Paul Dietrich described refugees huddling outside U.N. bases as a sign of public confidence. A reporter asked him how MONUC treats the wounded. "If people are injured, we take them to the base," he said. "That's the Geneva Convention...
...army colonel, John Tshibangu, arrived and promised that looters would be caught. A pastor, Rahera Kambale, pulled me aside. "Even as he's talking, they're still looting and raping and killing," he said. "This is the second time this month." I asked about MONUC. "They passed by one day," said the pastor. "They didn't stop." He echoed Father George: "I don't see their point." A few miles to the north, we found a Mai Mai checkpoint, where fighters searched a truckload of army wives, confiscating tubs of baby formula, bottles of Golden cooking oil and packs...
...President Obama says, 'Hey, we want you guys to accelerate your exit out of there.' There's a lot of anxiety associated with that statement here in Diyala," says Colonel Burt Thompson, the top U.S. military commander in the province. "The Kurds like us because we bring that stability. The Iraqis like us because we bring that stability ... I would not be surprised if you had a U.N. peacekeeping force here, in this part of the world, along the 140 line [dividing Iraqi Kurdistan from the rest of Iraq] as this thing matures and develops, to keep two belligerents away...