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...Treatment. (He wrote three episodes for the series' haunted soldier, who was played by Assi Dayan, the son of Defense Minister and war hero Moshe Dayan.) Like generations of Israelis, Forman grew up in a country that is besieged by hostile neighbors even as it occupies land the Palestinians consider their own. That twin feeling, of being both prisoners and police, might give anyone restless dreams. But the soldiers whose commanders did nothing to stop the 1982 massacre, while injured women fled from the camps begging the soldiers for help, are especially susceptible to long-term remorse...
...early April, when Russia's then Prime Minister Victor Zubkov told a Cabinet meeting that the state would need some 1,700 acres (700 hectares) to build more than 200 Olympic projects, some of them in Nizhneimeretinskaya Bukhta. The state has budgeted about $3.5 million to buy up the land. That works out to an average of $50 per 1,076 sq. ft. (100 sq m) or sotka, Russia's standard unit of land. But Sochi's successful Olympic bid has boosted Sochi land prices fivefold since last July; in April, a sotka in the area was on sale...
...Inechkyans have been living in Nizhneimeretinskaya Bukhta for six generations since 1911, when Czar Nicholas II granted land there to resettlers from Turkey. "Now, Putin is taking away what the Emperor gave our forefathers," says Inechkyan. He notes that the authorities promised to shift the bobsled track in the mountains above Sochi because of ecological concerns, "but they have no problem trampling upon human beings...
...alone. The Moscow city government and that of the Yekaterinburg region in the Urals are preparing legislation patterned on the law being applied around Sochi, in order to make it easier to appropriate land as the authorities see fit. In today's Russia, apparently you don't need an Olympic Games to find an excuse for confiscating property...
...commander, Lt. Col. Robert Leonard, insists that U.S. aircraft there, including AWACS surveillance planes that fly almost two dozen missions a week, are "only looking for illicit drugs" and drug-ferrying boats in the Pacific, and that their radar systems are activated exclusively over international waters, not on land. Ecuadorian flight control approves Manta's departures and landings, and Ecuadorian and Colombian liaison officers are on board during operations. (Ecuadorian military analysts note that U.S. help could have come not from Manta but from posts inside Colombia...