Word: soldiers
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...cover photographs TIME could have used to illustrate the war in Afghanistan, why choose a soldier who is, indefensibly, smoking? During World War II, the cigarette companies, aided by the media, helped create a culture in which soldiers and smoking went hand in hand. I thought we had moved far beyond such an ill-founded association. Richard Rivenes, Sugar Land, Texas...
...deceased are being withheld pending next-of-kin notification and release by the Department of Defense. The incident is under investigation and more information will be released when it becomes available." At first, the Associated Press, citing unnamed Pentagon officials, reported that the shooter was a U.S. soldier who may have been his own final victim in a murder-suicide rampage. But a late report said that the shooter was in military custody...
...rhetorical tool with which to attack governments of former Soviet Republics and Eastern Bloc countries that have increasingly moved towards the West. The most recent example - which is still making waves in Russia - was the 2007 row in Estonia over the moving of the statue of a Red Army soldier from a central Tallinn square to a nearby war cemetery, a decision which triggered riots and caused an international incident. (Read: "Estonians Under Siege in Moscow...
...free-trade agreement that Panama City and Washington signed in 2006. President Barack Obama favors it, but its passage in the U.S. has been in doubt because many in Congress are angry that Pedro Miguel Gonzalez - who has been indicted in the U.S. for the killing of a U.S. soldier in 1991 - remained president of Panama's National Assembly (until September 2008) amid the controversy. Gonzalez lost his Assembly seat in Sunday's election, however, and with it his parliamentary immunity. Although he is unlikely to be extradited to the U.S. (Panamanian law forbids the extradition of nationals), his ouster...
...start flowing into Gaza, since technically the strip won't be under Hamas' control. In practice, of course, Hamas will help decide how the money is spent. But lifting the Israeli blockade - along with doing more to stop the smuggling of rockets into Gaza and returning kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit - is crucial to getting a real, long-term cease-fire between Israel and Hamas. Once Gaza's reconstruction begins, Hamas will have an incentive not to provoke Israel and blow up the entire process. The happier Palestinians are with what they have, the harder it will be for Hamas...