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Despite these assurances, peace and security are still lacking. Palestinians have paid a heavy toll for Israel's unwillingness to disarm the settlers or bring in international observers. While censorship of foreign media has made visual evidence difficult to come by, smuggled video tapes show the harrassment, and sometimes brutality, which Palestinians are subject to. International doctors who have worked in the occupied territories report that they have treated patients that had less than a handful of ribs left unbroken...
...change our attitude to Russia's foreign policy too. During the fight to the , finish between the Soviet-era Congress and Yeltsin, it made sense for the U.S. to back him to the hilt. That meant bending over backward not to offend Russian nationalism: leaning hard on Ukraine to disarm; raising no fuss when Russian troops intervened in Georgia, Tajikistan and Moldova; keeping the East Europeans out of NATO...
...that Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger told Boutros-Ghali "that we were going to do something very precise and limited and then get out," in the words of a senior aide to Eagleburger. Boutros- Ghali accepted but then "moved the goalposts," says the official, demanding that the Americans disarm Somali gangs, venture into the countryside and the north of the country, away from the Mogadishu area, and stay for an unlimited period. The tale heard in U.N. corridors is very different: it is of the Americans waffling over whether to disarm the Somalis and whether to move into the north...
...welfare of his troops, and who zealously guards the reputation of his institution. Powell's caution is fine if it consists mainly of rigorous examination of deployments before they begin. (This realism was apparently lacking when the Bush administration committed troops to Somalia without a serious plan to disarm the warlords...
...cost between $500 and $750 and allow police to track stolen vehicles with an electronic signal. But thieves have already come up with devices that can detect whether a car is sending out a tracking signal, allowing them to pass up such cars or locate the tracking device and disarm...