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...possible answers: a) it would require nearly every single policeman and soldier on duty in Israel today; b) zero, because it simply won't happen. Despite pressure by the Bush Administration and the rest of the international community for Israel to withdraw many of its Jewish citizens from 220 hilltop settlements and outposts in the disputed West Bank, such a move could be so divisive in Israel that no Prime Minister, especially one as embattled as Ehud Olmert, would risk it. Olmert won the March 2006 election in part by vowing to remove large numbers of settlements. But public opinion...
...country's east, the new Prime Minister's talk of national unity fell on deaf ears. At Metanaro, hundreds of refugees erected huge Fretilin banners across the main highway, then blockaded it with rocks and logs. The road quickly became a no-go zone for the UN, with a policeman posted to stop UN vehicles from approaching after several were badly damaged by rocks. In Baucau seven buildings were torched and in Viqueque seven more were destroyed. At Quelecai, south-east of Baucau, fighting was continuing between pro-Fretilin youths and supporters of other political parties when TIME visited...
Jacob Zuma was born in the poor, sparsely populated area of Nkandla in the eastern province of KwaZulu-Natal. His father, a policeman, died when he was 3 and his mother found work as a domestic servant in Durban. Zuma was working full-time by 15. His elder brother was an ANC member, and at 17 Zuma joined too. The apartheid government banned the party the next year, 1960. In 1963, Zuma was arrested, convicted of trying to overthrow the government and sentenced to 10 years, which he served on Robben Island, the famous prison off Cape Town where Nelson...
...China's Communist leaders have shown no intention of easing up. "It's a policy of 'soft to the outside, strict within,'" Hu Jia told TIME. He warned, too, that once the Olympics were over, things would really get bad for activists. "I have already been warned by a policeman. He said, 'You are very lively right now aren't you? Just wait. There'll be a settling of accounts after the Games are over...
...daughter came out to play. Some workers arrived to install an extra bed. Then we left with all the usual polite exchanges. Understandably, Yuan didn't step over the lintel to see us out, as usually happens in China. On our way to the front gate, we passed the policeman, who had found himself a folding chair and was slumped in it, Buddha belly bulging. He waved to us and called out a cheery...