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...category of ground-based air defense was opened to women. But despite these advances, Australian women still only occupy 13% of military positions. And today, they are lawfully excluded from roles in seven divisions of the army, these including navy clearance diver, the Special Air Services (SAS) and various positions on the ground that involve direct combat. Before last month, the ruling logic was that women were not physically strong enough to do these jobs. When the new standards come into place, women with a high fitness level will hopefully be enticed by the range of opportunities available to them...
...British SAS team, which had one commando killed during the firefight, according to NATO officials in Kabul, flew off in a helicopter with Farrell but left Munadi's body behind. The translator's grieving relatives made the dangerous journey from Kabul to Kunduz to pick up the body. Munadi had returned briefly to Kabul during a break from graduate school in Germany and was working part-time for the Times, accompanying journalists on their increasingly dangerous forays out of the capital. (Read about roadside bombs in Afghanistan...
...Schnier said. “This is a creative way to do that.” Mashael A. Fakhro ’11, the co-president of the Society of Arab Students, also emphasized the event’s creativity, writing in an e-mail, “SAS is co-sponsoring because it supports dialogue on the conflict through creative and innovative means.” Jose G. Olivarez ’10, a director of the Spoken Word Society, which helped sponsor last night’s event, had prior ties to Coval, who mentored Olivarez through...
...last night, requested that all such aircraft with at least 10,000 cycles (a single cycle is a take-off and a landing) be grounded for inspection. Bombardier said it was a precautionary move after two accidents (one in Denmark, the other in Lithuania, both involving aircraft owned by SAS) involving its bestselling Q400 in a space of three days. In January 2008, SAS, which suffered a third Q400 accident, said it had examined its planes' landing gear and that a preliminary Danish Accident Investigation Board had concluded that a construction error was behind the first two accidents. Denying...
...carrier Alitalia - and the ever growing Lufthansa, an enlarged BA and Ryanair would mean "for most of the smaller network airlines who have a very weak balance sheet, they're going to have to fold into one of those four groups," says Exane BNP Paribas' Van Klaveren. Scandinavian Airlines (SAS), for one, "will survive 2009, but I doubt it can survive 2010 on its own," he says. And while banks or carmakers can be too big to fail, "the days of every country in Europe having their own national airline are gone...