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...number it regularly exceeds during holidays and busier hours, said Napier. According to Fabis, Burdick’s is looking to begin a petition in the store to garner community support to expand its capacity. Lint said she imagined their application would be successful. Fabis said that the continuous conflict with Settebello has become a nuisance. “In economic times like these, it’s disconcerting that a fellow small business owner is putting so much pressure on us.” Fabis added that she did not understand the logic behind Settebello’s complaints...
...that reason, intelligence and police investigations continue in France, Belgium, Italy, other parts of Europe and other parts of the world, in nations whose involvement in the Afghanistan conflict has made them a target for terror...
Wargamers envision future scenarios emerging out of many situations: the continuing fall-out from the break-up of the Soviet Union, ethnic conflicts that cross borders, a combination of both. "What are the possible conflict issues?" asks Maj. Tom Whitlock, Special Operations Command coordinator for one of the wargames. "You can look at Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia and you can see that lines are drawn completely arbitrary of ethnic lines." The Kurds, for example, live in four different countries while even a large, apparently homogeneous country like Iran has a large Arab minority...
...conflicts end? At the end of a week of gaming, the results were mixed. In the Central Asian conflict, says Army Spokesman Harvey Perritt, the NATO rapid reaction force coupled with humanitarian assistance was able to decrease the violence along the border between Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. The Korean problem, however, remained largely unresolved. "With the Korean Peninsula," says Perritt, "the problem is bigger than just military." The conclusions drawn from the exercise, he said, were more "informational and cultural." The response to a North Korean attack, he says, would have to require diplomatic, humanitarian and other solutions, including the involvment...
Indeed, it is in dissecting this Pope's ideas - often now cloaked in more diplomatic language that was absent in Regensburg - that we can see that he is still preoccupied with the contemporary interplay (or lack thereof) of faith and reason, and the risk of rising inter-religious conflict. Speaking after a visit inside the al-Hussein Ben-Talal mosque, the Pope acknowledged that "tensions and divisions between the followers of different religious traditions, sadly, cannot be denied." But Benedict said that Muslims and Christians have a shared obligation to counter the contemporary idea that "religion is necessarily a cause...