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...rebels used the cease-fire's seven-month lull to rearm, recruit and retrain, but nobody expects them to try to march en masse into Kathmandu. Even though they number an estimated 500 commandos, 8,000 regular troops and 20,000-40,000 ragtag militiamen, they would still be no match for Nepal's 68,000 soldiers and 57,000 armed policemen?not in a conventional war. But in a campaign of hit-and-run, the army, stretched thin across the country, cedes the advantage. "The worrying thing for us is the high degree of skill and expertise (the Maoists...
...address the imbalance in incomes, particularly between Kathmandu and the regions. We put forward measures to produce such a progressive transformation in the last round of peace talks. But looking back, the Maoists were not sincere in the talks, didn't look at our proposal and merely used the lull to regroup...
...area southeast of Lima. The hostages said that a ransom had been paid, which local press reports put between $200,000 and $900,000. However the government and company officials denied giving the rebels any money. The kidnapping raised fears that the rebels are regrouping after a decade-long lull. Temper Fidel CUBA Fidel Castro and his brother Ra?l led hundreds of thousands of demonstrators outside the Spanish and Italian embassies to protest the European Union's decision to review policy toward the country because of human-rights concerns. Protesters held signs emblazoned with DOWN WITH FASCISM! and LONG LIVE...
Following a mid-decade lull, Harvard took up the issue of South African divestment in 1977 with the formation of the SASC, which moved divestment to the forefront of student activists’ agenda...
...There needs to be a critical mass of regular faculty to do replacement hiring in a proper way,” Buell said. “There will be a one year lull, I won’t say hiatus. We have absolutely not mortgaged our future...