Word: commando
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...same time, the U.S. began airlifting out of Chad several hundred Libyan dissidents who had served as soldiers in the pro-Western government of ousted President Hissene Habre. Tripoli accused the U.S. of training the dissidents to carry out commando raids in Libya, but Washington refused to comment...
Unless our non-proliferation policy is invading any country we don't like that gets dangerous weapons, America should instead try to negotiate inspections of Iraqi weapons facilities or opt for Israeli-like surgical air strikes, cruise-missile strikes or commando missions...
Nintendo has so far squandered a rare opportunity to use its market position to do some good. The 40 million Nintendo systems installed around the world are powerful little computers that could deliver rich and rewarding experiences. Instead, Nintendo chose to give the world's children RoboCop and Bionic Commando. Too bad the company did not seek out Papert, or people like him, long before this...
That did not deter Eugene Terre Blanche, leader of the A.W.B., from staging a military drill of 300 of his "officers," whose job, he said, will be to establish countrywide commando groups to oppose a black government. When Law and Order Minister Adriaan Vlok arrived on a fact-finding trip, he met a heavily armed A.W.B. contingent outside the Welkom police station. Its Land Rover carried a bumper sticker reading IF GUNS ARE OUTLAWED, HOW CAN WE SHOOT LIBERALS? "There is no force in this world," says Terre Blanche, "that will stop ((Afrikaners)) from defending themselves." Vlok has given...