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...presence of U.S. personnel in the Philippines is not uncomplicated, however. The withdrawal of the U.S. from its longtime naval base at Subic Bay and Clark Airfield in 1991 came after decades of Filipino nationalist pressure, and inviting American troops back in remains a sensitive decision for President Gloria Arroyo. Her insistence that U.S. forces will be limited to advisory and support roles may reflect a concern that her political rivals may try to exploit nationalist sentiments against her over a renewed American presence. The Maoist New People's Army whose four-decade insurgency in the central Philippines continues...
...allies lest they infect the workers' paradise with democratic insouciance. Franta tells his tale in flashbacks: during the war his girlfriend in Czechoslovakia (Linda Rybova) and a lovely Englishwoman (the heartbreaking Tara Fitzgerald) left him--the first because she thought him dead, the second because her husband returned from naval service grievously wounded; his best friend, a pilot (Krystof Hadek) he mentored, died saving Franta's life; even his dog acquired a new mistress...
...With that history, Israelis have been infuriated by the muted world reaction to the Karine A seizure. It took a visit to Washington by a high-ranking delegation from Israeli military and naval intelligence to get the State Department to link Arafat's Authority to the arms, though the U.S. won't tie Arafat directly to the boat. Arafat's advisers say he expects the U.S. to use his embarrassment over the Karine A to make him crack down on Hamas and another violent group, Islamic Jihad, a long-standing demand by Israel and the U.S. "I don't envy...
...Still, it's hard to imagine the P.A.'s giving up on gunrunning altogether. The three men blamed for the Karine A operation--Fathi Razem, deputy chief of Arafat's navy; Fuad Shubaki, head of finance for the National Security Force; and Adel Mughrabi, a naval officer--are in Arafat's jails now. But there was sublime hypocrisy in that. The panel that fingered them was headed by Abdel Razak Majaideh, head of the National Security Forces in Gaza. Last year, according to senior Palestinian security sources, Majaideh was discovered to have been running a mortar factory in Gaza...
After nearly four weeks off, the Harvard men’s swimming team showed little rust against the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., this weekend...