Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know who was right and who was wrong,"he says. "I'm a soldier and a police officer and Ido what I'm told...
...many correspondents who lived in China at the time, Beijing is still a city of ghosts. When I am in the center of the city, I'm haunted by images of a dead soldier, his body burned by an angry mob and strung up from a footbridge. Am I the only one? At that spot now is a gleaming shopping mall. When I visit my old neighborhood, I think back to the terrifying scene three days after the massacre when a convoy of troops opened fire on foreigners' apartments. For months after Tiananmen, you could feel the indentations the tanks...
There is literally no chance of a repeat -- Tiananmen Square is being resurfaced, and is blocked off by a wall of corrugated metal. On the spot where a dead soldier's body was burned by an angry mob, a shopping mall now stands -- a sign that priorities have changed. TIME Asia deputy editor Adi Ignatius says that "people in Beijing are no longer hung up on Tiananmen." Capitalism is more important than democracy now, and that's just fine with the government. But with critics in the West watching closer than ever for signs of a China they can hate...
...Beirut with a unit that assassinated three leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He was a commander of Israel's famous 1976 operation to rescue hostages at Uganda's Entebbe airport. Most of his exploits remain classified. In all, he earned five citations for bravery, more than any other soldier in Israeli history...
Barak's status as an Israeli war hero at the head of the country's pro-peace party raises the temptation to liken him to the legendary soldier-statesman Rabin. "It's an understandable comparison, particularly since Rabin chose Barak as his long-term successor," says Beyer. "But Rabin went boldly out ahead of Israeli public opinion with the confidence generated by a long and distinguished military and political career. Barak is only starting out on his political career, and he's unlikely to be prepared to take similar risks." He may be no Yitzhak Rabin, but with the peace...