Word: militiamen
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Despite the scale of Los Angeles, its security forces are not large by recent Olympic standards. At the 1980 Games in Moscow, 240,000 Soviet militiamen patrolled the streets and stood shoulder to shoulder at each event. Still, officials in the City of Angels feel confident they have done everything possible to prevent disruptions. "These Games are a celebration, not an international security event," says Security Director Best. "But you can be sure we are planning for a worst possible case scenario...
...them were beheaded, to serve as examples to others. "Their crime? The crime of these teachers is that they were trying to get people out of their illiteracy situation, which was inherited from the Somocista dictatorship," said Almado Felipe Guittieretz, one of three out of a total of 10 militiamen who survived the day long attack...
...Christian-held area just north of Beirut. The errant Israeli trio gave the Syrians a long-awaited pretext for drawing widespread attention to the unofficial office and for contending anew that the delegation is, in fact, a conduit for the shipment of arms and ammunition to Christian militiamen in Lebanon...
...Syrian Sunni Muslim, would find that a new 26-member Cabinet would be large enough to accommodate all of Lebanon's myriad sectarian interests and make a political reality of the dramatic realignment in the country's balance of military power brought about when Shi'ite militiamen seized control of West Beirut in February...
Hours later, fighting broke out once more in Beirut, not only between Christians and Muslims but also between Druze militiamen and a radical Muslim faction. One of the few accomplishments of the conference had been an agreement on a ceasefire. But in the first seven days after the cease-fire supposedly went into effect, at least 50 people in the Lebanese capital were killed by the shelling...