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...violent clashes that have characterized the last two weeks had appeared to be waning in recent days. But when Israeli reservist soldiers made a wrong turn yesterday and ended up near the center of the West Bank town of Ramallah--a hotspot of fighting between Israeli troops and Palestinian rioters--violence erupted again with unprecedented force...
...trusted enough to work in the White House, are ferociously competent and unrelentingly discreet. They often stay for decades, and they keep their mouth shut. Tripp was different. She was seen as a schoolmarm, a bit obsessed with improprieties she saw around her. She once turned in an Army reservist for "petty wrongdoing," according to the Washington Post, and consequently got the man fired...
MOGADISHU, Somalia: Presaging a new wave of Somalian violence, the son of a dead Somali warlord took his father's place on Sunday, vowing to preserve the political structure created by his father. Hussein Mohamed Aidid, a former U.S. Marine reservist, served with U.S. forces sent to Somalia in 1992. His father was killed last Thursday. Aidid was named interim president of Somalia by his clan and promptly promised to pacify the troubled nation by eliminating his rivals. Aidid's men killed two gunmen of Ali Madhi's faction Sunday, just days after two other warlords declared a unilateral cease...
...ANSWERED THE call of my nation and spent a year in a foreign country we defended that was not worth dying for. More than 58,000 of our nation's soldiers laid down their life for their country in that war. Today I am an active-ready reservist subject to being called to keep the peace in Bosnia. Again I will serve, and I am willing to put my life on the line for the country. When you put on the military uniform, you do not question your duty; you perform it to your best ability. It does not matter...
...supporters and have supplied Inkatha fighters with weapons. "You've got to find the criminals," Mbeki says. "The threat to democracy does not end with the effort to disrupt the elections. Some of them will take up guns and place bombs." At least one police officer and one reservist were among the 33 whites arrested last week as suspects in terrorist bombings...