Word: disarmement
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...bloodletting badly undermined the credibility of the 15,000-man Indian peacekeeping force that is patrolling northern and eastern Sri Lanka. The Indian government vowed to disarm the Tigers forcibly if necessary, and by week's end Indian troops had raided rebel camps and arrested 160 guerrillas amid reports of brisk fighting...
...into the sea. Under questioning, some of the sailors admitted what they were doing and even told where they had dropped the lethal charges. U.S. Navy SEALs (sea, air and land commandos) who boarded the vessel found charts detailing the mine- laying scheme. This helped the Navy locate and disarm seven other mines that the Iran Ajr had dropped into the sea-lanes...
...loving him. And McEwan's humor is never simply topical. "I can't go anywhere alone," says the government leader of the impossible romance. "Bodyguards apart, I have to take the nuclear hotline, and that means at least three engineers. And an extra driver. And someone from Joint Staff." "Disarm," Stephen urges, "for the sake of the heart." One should not be ashamed to read this astonishing book for the same reason...
...would be deprived of new arms, and the contras would be ejected from their bases in Honduras. Not surprisingly, the contras remain deeply suspicious. "There's just no way we're going to put down our arms and surrender," says Contra Leader Pedro Joaquin Chamorro Jr. "We will not disarm until the Sandinistas are on an irreversible path to democratization...
...after the signing ceremony, some 3,000 Indian troops landed on the Tamil-dominated Jaffna peninsula in the north of the island. Their task: to disarm the guerrillas and take up peacekeeping duties. Those efforts promised + to be tricky; the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the largest and most militant of five rebel groups, insisted that they would not consider disarming until New Delhi released their leader, Vellupillai Prabakaran. He had been under house arrest in New Delhi after calling the pact a "stab in the back, but early this week Prabakaran was released and returned to Jaffna after pledging...