Word: soldiering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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JERUSALEM: Making a visit into Jerusalem, King Hussein personally offered his condolences to the families of the seven schoolgirls killed by a Jordanian soldier last Thursday. Hussein's diplomacy may prove to be more effective at healing feelings than at changing Israeli policy. After a two-hour private meeting with the Jordanian leader, Benjamin Netanyahu announced his government's determination to proceed with construction of a 6,500-unit housing settlement in east Jerusalem. The initial announcement of the settlement plans sparked an angry response from Hussein last week and prompted Yasser Arafat to cut off all communication with Netanyahu...
Rising tensions in the Middle East found horrific expression Thursday when a Jordanian border guard opened f ire on a group of Israeli schoolgirls, killing seven and wounding at least six more before he was overpowered by other Jordanian soldiers. TIME?s Bill Stewart reports that the girls were visiting a park at a horseshoe bend in the Jordan River, an ex ceptionally lovely area that has been Jordanian territory since Israel ceded the land in 1994. Seizing the weapon from a fellow soldier, the guard opened fire on the children, who were some 50 yards away, chasing them down...
...abandon his real family for his Mob family--his wife, whose patience with his absences finally runs out, is very well played by Anne Heche--Brasco must ultimately betray his only real friend in the criminal clan, Al Pacino's very weary, very unsuccessful and finally very touching soldier, a man the movie makes much more appealing than the law-enforcement bureaucrats who show not an ounce of understanding, let alone compassion, for the soul Pistone-Brasco has shriven in their service...
...army have been trading deadly blows since Thursday, when a clash resulted in the death of one of the guerrillas. At 5:30 a.m. Friday, local time, Hezbollah responded by peppering an Israeli-occupied border enclave in the zone with machine-gun fire and mortar shells, killing one Israeli soldier and wounded three others, according to Israeli security officials. Israel gunners retaliated with three hours of heavy artillery fire on suspected guerrilla hideouts in the vicinity of villages facing Israeli positions in the enclave, the officials said. And Israeli warplanes, backing up the shelling, raided suspected Hezbollah positions this morning...
...army have been trading deadly blows since Thursday, when a clash resulted in the death of one of the guerrillas. At 5:30 a.m. Friday, local time, Hezbollah responded by peppering an Israeli-occupied border enclave in the zone with machine-gun fire and mortar shells, killing one Israeli soldier and wounded three others, according to Israeli security officials. Israel gunners retaliated with three hours of heavy artillery fire on suspected guerrilla hideouts in the vicinity of villages facing Israeli positions in the enclave, the officials said. And Israeli warplanes, backing up the shelling, raided suspected Hezbollah positions this morning...