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...morning," he says. Four months later, a Japanese engineering unit of 600 men arrived with top-of-the-line equipment for road building in Cambodia. Harding describes them as "very well prepared." But the force came under fire at home for having a limited mandate when an unprotected Japanese policeman was killed by guerrillas because soldiers were stationed in a secure area miles away. Japan has also sent its soldiers minesweeping in the Persian Gulf, peacekeeping in Mozambique and on humanitarian missions to Rwanda and Honduras. The unit in the Golan is the one long-term operation...
...wearing a seat belt. Justices Souter, Scalia, Thomas, Kennedy and Rehnquist ruled against Atwater, stating that while "the arrest and booking were inconvenient to Atwater, they were not so extraordinary as to violate the Fourth Amendment." Interestingly, everyone on the Court agreed with Atwater and her lawyer that the policeman in this situation went overboard - cuffing a soccer mom seems somewhat beyond normal procedure - but the majority maintained the officer acted within the letter of the law. (Atwater was handcuffed and a friend was called to pick up her children. She posted bond later that day and paid...
...message vividly and succinctly to the widest possible audience. During the early days of the most recent wave of Palestinian violence, for example, newspapers across the world, including The New York Times and the Boston Globe, published a photograph of a bloodied man crouching before a baton-wielding Israeli policeman, beneath which the following caption appeared: "An Israeli policeman and a Palestinian on the Temple Mount." In fact, it was later revealed that the "Palestinian" was actually an American Jewish student, Tuvia Grossman, who had been visiting the Old City with friends when their cab was stopped by a Palestinian...
...Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat’s personal guard, which admitted responsibility for eight separate lethal attacks and confessed that they had been on their way to lay several bombs in Jerusalem’s civilian centers. Then another cell of four Palestinian terrorists, including a Palestinian policeman, were apprehended trying to leave Hebron, also on their way to carry out an attack. The IDF termed the closure a success and it was lifted. The following day a Palestinian walked out of Bethlehem down to the road from Jerusalem and riddled an oncoming car with bullets, killing its driver...
...have more than three decades of stage work under their belt, though neither, oddly, ever landed a movie-extra job. Hill did pick up some work as an extra for British TV in the '80s, a job he liked because you got "danger pay" for playing a soldier or policeman. "When the Troubles were at their height, it was considered dangerous," he says. "You wore big yellow BBC plaques at the top of your uniform just to make sure, if there were any potential snipers, they wouldn't mistake...