Word: troop
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...with orders to negotiate a peace between the government and rebel leader Laurent Kabila and at the same time help to extricate some 100,000 Rwandan refugees from the path of the rebellion. After months of resisting U.N. air evacuation of refugees on the grounds that it would disrupt troop movements, rebel leader Laurent Kabila made an abrupt turnaround Sunday and gave the U.N. just sixty days, starting May 1, to track down and evacuate every last refugee. After Sunday's maiden voyage carried just 40 refugees from Kisangani to their destination in the Rwandan capital of Kigali, Richardson...
...heat on tobacco shows no sign of lessening. With 22 states in the fray so far, others are certain to join in. And companies face more than a dozen private class-action suits and hundreds of individual lawsuits. At the same time, cigarette makers--minus Liggett--will soon troop to court in Greensboro, North Carolina, to hear a judge's decision on whether to allow new fda rules that say tobacco billboards must be at least 1,000 ft. from schools and that require young smokers to show photo...
...Arabs is absurd, and that the release of Palestinian "terrorists" rendered the death of her first son meaningless. More fuel was added to the fire Monday, when Israel's withdrawal from the West Bank ran into a dead end as Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat rejected plans to remove troops from just over nine percent of West Bank territory. Denouncing the move as "a trick," Arafat fumed that the Israeli government had breached an agreement with Palestinians who had expected to receive no less than 30 percent of West Bank land in the first of three troop redeployments expected to start...
...about this," says TIME's Bill Stewart. "This will continue periodically until Israel finds a way to extricate itself from Southern Lebanon." The exchange, says Stewart, accomplished exactly what Hezbollah wants: to keep the conflict alive and the pressure on Israel. Calls continue in Israel for a troop withdrawal from the zone. But most in the Israeli government, and indeed in the United States', feel that Israel's troops are where they must be. "The purpose of the zone is actually not to prevent conflict," says Stewart, "but to prevent conflict from occurring on Israel soil." Pulling...
...about this," says TIME's Bill Stewart. "This will continue periodically until Israel finds a way to extricate itself from Southern Lebanon." The exchange, says Stewart, accomplished exactly what Hezbollah wants: to keep the conflict alive and the pressure on Israel. Calls continue in Israel for a troop withdrawal from the zone. But most in the Israeli government, and indeed in the United States', feel that Israel's troops are where they must be. "The purpose of the zone is actually not to prevent conflict," says Stewart, "but to prevent conflict from occurring on Israel soil." Pulling...