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That's not how the military views it. They see rapidly spreading support for the Free Aceh Movement, or GAM in its Indonesian acronym, and they're determined to stanch it with a brutal combination of collective punishment for towns and villages that back GAM, and preemptive terror toward everyone else. The result: wide swathes of Aceh have been brutalized since the beginning of the year. Along a 60-km stretch of the main north-south highway of east Aceh, hamlet after hamlet displays telltale scars: razed shops and markets and blackened, gutted houses. Villages still standing are eerily deserted...
...lawsuit filed by council candidate James I. McSweeney asks the Massachusetts Supreme Court to abolish PR voting, although he hopes to gam election under the system in Tuesday's elections...
...story is not new. From the time Chinese Forty-Niners joined the California Gold Rush, Asians have tended to see America in terms of the old Cantonese name for San Francisco: Gao Gam Saan (Old Gold Mountain), or a land of economic opportunity above all. Nativist harassment of the newcomers, coupled with openly racist citizenship and immigration laws, encouraged the impulse to get ahead financially without bothering about assimilation into the mainstream society. Politics was something to be avoided. As an old Far Eastern maxim goes, the nail that sticks out gets hammered down...
...greatest comeback in series history started with an extraordinary pre-gam. During the player introductions, Cornell players skate out to center ice and kicked snow sprays in the direction of the already-introduced Crimson. Sophomore defenseman Mike Schafer cracked a still over his helmet and shook the at furiously at the startled Harvard players...
...limitations of geography . Reports that some 40 freighters and tankers were trapped in ice-clogged Arctic seas last fall underscore the restraints that the absence of warm-water ports has imposed on Russian dreams of being a maritime power. Two of the Soviet Union's four fleets can gam access to the sea only through strategic waterways that are not under Soviet control, the Baltic Sea and the Dardanelles...