Word: soldiers
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P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat made a conciliatory -- and politically risky -- gesture, ordering the arrests of 300 Islamic Hamas activists, supporters of the militant group threatening to kill a young Israeli soldier by tomorrow if 200 Palestinian prisoners aren't freed. The move, in fact, brought threats from a top Islamic leader whose own house was raided. He said the crackdown would only spur further attacks on Israelis. Rabin, unmoved by the display, threatened to halt the Palestinian autonomy process entirely and even send a strike force into Gaza if Arafat can't save the hostage; whether his life will...
Rabin and Arafat reportedly will receive the Nobel Peace Prize Friday -- the deadline Hamas has set to kill the young Israeli soldier...
Advertisement from the October 1994 issue of Soldier of Fortune magazine
...vast majority of Haitians who support Aristide, freedom from the hated military was something to be welcomed joyfully. In Cap Haitien, while residents celebrated the return of electricity for the first time in three years -- courtesy of the Marines -- only one uniformed Haitian soldier remained at his post. The rest of the garrison -- from Lieut. Colonel Claudel Josaphat, the feared and brutal regional military commander, to telephone repairmen who owed their jobs to the de facto government -- had fled. Shortly after U.S. forces arrived, a delegation of local dignitaries approached Marine commander Colonel Thomas Jones. "I guess...
After waking Hurlbut, the band parades down Mass. Ave., through Harvard Square and down to Soldier's Field where they learn the formations for that day's program before the game begins, Stewart said...