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...winning trust is not easy in Aceh?especially when heavily armed units routinely patrol nearby villages in armored personnel carriers with heavy machine-guns mounted on the roof. "An attack can happen at any time, any place," warns army intelligence officer Captain Adrain Ade, an assault-rifle on his lap, as he scans passing villages for signs of rebel activity. His destination today is the distant village of Montasik, where another TNI platoon is camped out in a disused rice warehouse. Conditions are cramped and squalid, and the sense of siege is palpable. Platoon leader Captain Heri Sumitro says...
...Coast Guard and the Defense, Justice and State departments--are revving up their recruiting efforts, looking for everyone from computer programmers, budding young diplomats and spooks to lawyers and linguists. The Immigration and Naturalization Service wants to hire thousands of new border-patrol guards and immigration inspectors to process and keep better track of new arrivals to the country; these positions require just a high school diploma and, with overtime, can pay around $40,000 in the first year...
...horrific police state” where a conspiracy has little chance of success, as one American official said. Hussein has thrown out United Nations weapons inspectors, and he has recently been moving surface-to-air missile batteries into the no-fly zones, endangering American and British aircraft that patrol the area. Hussein has used chemical weapons on his own people, and fired missiles at Israeli cities during the Gulf War—even though Israel took no aggressive action against Iraq. According to the 2001 U.S. State Department report on Iraq, “the Government continued to execute summarily...
...blessing of the host nation. But the bases also could trigger the anger of nearby Russia and China, who have long viewed central Asia as being firmly within their spheres of influence. They might also antagonize Islamic fundamentalists in the oil-rich region. U.S. troops know the risk, and patrol the 16 villages within three miles of the base, trying to make friends with the locals and listening for any signs of trouble. Rumseld spent Saturday aboard an MC-130 special-operations plane, hopping around U.S. bases in Afghanistan and meeting with Afghan leaders and the U.S. troops there...
...become head of a New York City Catholic guest house--which occasionally housed children and teenagers. Shanley, who had already worked there for two years, didn't get the job. After he returned to California in 1997, he joined the San Diego police department's voluntary senior patrol. Fellow volunteers and neighbors told Time recently that he never mentioned he was a priest. They said they have not seen Shanley for weeks. He has not responded to interview requests...