Word: liaisoning
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...looking for comfortable seats and souvenirs ripped out many of the planes' fittings, slashed seats, damaged cockpit equipment and popped out every windshield. "It's unlikely any of the planes will fly again," says Welsh, a reservist who works for the aviation firm Pratt & Whitney as a quality-control liaison officer to Boeing...
...liability for China." One sign of Beijing's displeasure: pro-China newspapers in the territory have now been allowed to report and comment?albeit in subdued tones?on the shortcomings of Tung and his government. In the past week, too, China's leadership has recalled members of the Beijing Liaison Office in Hong Kong for briefings and has dispatched a slew of other officials to the territory to gauge for itself the local mood...
Kidd will continue to oversee the Philips Brooks House (PBH), but will also be the primary administrative liaison to the College’s approximately 260 student groups, chair the Committee on College Life (CCL) and oversee the Harvard Foundation on Race Relations...
...Americans found a useful ally in Jameel Yusuf, head of the Citizen-Police Liaison Committee (CPLC). An energetic, well-heeled businessman, Yusuf formed the committee in the early 1990s when Karachi was stricken by several kidnappings and murders a day. "It was turning into a city of death," he says. By setting up a data bank and electronic surveillance of criminals, Yusuf and a few honest cops managed to bust many of the major kidnapping gangs. These criminals were often linked to cells of sectarian killers and terrorists. "They all steal cars and buy and sell illegal weapons," Yusuf says...
...ARRESTED. SAIFULLAH (MUKLIS) YUNOS, alleged head of special operations for the Philippine separatist group the Moro National Liberation Front and said to be its liaison with the regional terrorist organization Jemaah Islamiah (JI); while trying to board a flight for Manila; in Cagayan de Oro, the Philippines. Yunos was caught with an Egyptian who is on international terrorist-watch lists. Meanwhile, in Cambodia the authorities detained three men?one Egyptian and two Thais?for being JI members. Although the arrests signify progress in the war on terror, they also show the resilience and reach of JI, which is widely regarded...