Word: mi
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Dressed in military fatigues and carrying rifles, the strangers began drifting into town the night of April 3 and continued arriving the next morning. Some came on buses, others in a truck. Residents of the isolated trading town of Ipil (pop. 52,000), 500 mi. south of Manila, noticed the newcomers. But soldiers are a common sight most places in the Philippines, particularly on the turbulent southern island of Mindanao, with its history of Muslim insurgency. "We thought they were real army," said Arturo Dimla, a local accounts clerk...
...week's end the army had poured more than 1,000 troops into the area, and they were fighting a running battle with some 200 rebels 15 mi. west of Ipil. The troops attacked with artillery and helicopter gunships, and the guerrillas returned the fire, forcing some 7,000 people to flee for their safety. Army officers said the rebels were trying to link up with reinforcements from an mnlf camp at Siocon, in the adjoining province. The Abu Sayyaf had forced civilians to bury at least 14 of their dead fighters. The toll on the other side: five hostages...
...response to N.R.A.-backed lawsuits brought by county sheriffs in four states--Arizona, Louisiana, Mississippi and Montana--judges have also ruled Brady unconstitutional because it compels localities to adopt national standards. In Val Verde County, which covers 3,240 sq. mi. in southwestern Texas, sheriff J.R. Koog says his 15 deputies are stretched to the limit. Echoing the Capitol Hill debate over unfunded mandates, he complains about the ``horrendous effect'' on his operations budget. ``The government can operate in the red, pink or whatever,'' he says. ``I have to operate in the black...
...right-to-lifers with his own brand of aggressive, bawdy behavior. Once, when protesters came to sprinkle holy water around his former clinic, he charged out with a foot-long, penis-shaped water pistol and squirted back. The only abortion provider for an area of 200,000 sq. mi., he charges $260 each for the roughly 3,000 procedures he performs each year. His wife Lynne helps run the clinic, and Stutes says they saved for several years to make a down payment on the new facility...
...occasion for Dole's Bosnia posturing was the Serb attack on the Muslim area of Bihac. In fact, as the French pointed out accurately, it was a counterattack. The Muslims began this round with a fierce surprise offensive in late October that won them 95 sq. mi. of Serb-controlled territory and quiet applause from the U.S. Now that the gambit has backfired and the Bosnian government is blaming everyone but itself, Dole is pushing for more NATO bombing, for lifting the arms embargo and for other forms of flailing unilateralism...