Word: troop
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...steep escarpment to a height of 2,970 ft. on the Syrian-Israeli border, the Golan commands all the low ground that constitutes northern Israel. Syria repeatedly shelled Israeli kibbutzim from the Heights in the 1960s. Not a shot has been fired there since Henry Kissinger brokered a troop- separation accord in 1974, but poised on both sides are thousands of tanks, a bristling reminder of the state of war that has existed between Syria and Israel since...
Citing frustration with the United Nations' continued inability to halt the massacre in Bosnia, the head of the 10,000-troop U.N. peacekeeping force there resigned his commission. Lieut. General Francis Briquemont of Belgium said, "There is a fantastic gap between all these Security Council resolutions, the will to execute those resolutions and the means available to commanders in the field." Meanwhile, Warren Zimmerman, the last U.S. ambassador to Yugoslavia before it disintegrated, resigned from the State Department in disagreement with U.S. policy toward Bosnia...
...differences over security and border issues by Dec. 13, Rabin warned that meeting the deadline "looks difficult." Arafat, too, worried that the violence "could threaten the peace process." But, the P.L.O. chairman told TIME, "the process will go forward in spite of everything." Even if the beginning of Israeli troop withdrawal slips past the scheduled day, the hour when authority will be transferred into Palestinian hands is fast approaching. The most critical question now is whether Arafat and the Palestinians are ready to rule themselves...
...Harvard's football team players lost their battle in the brutal November cold, a somewhat more reserved Crimson troop sat in the stands of the Yale Bowl resting on the laurels of victory: The Harvard Chess Club had done it again...
...course, Bad Religion followers enjoy theband's lyrics as much as they enjoy its music. Onprevious albums, BR's lyric sheet has been studdedwith words like "myoma" and "rectilinear." Theband has labelled the Middle East "the fertilecrescent," and has sarcastically referred toOperation Rescue as "the rectifying troop" whichalone can "stop the heinous wrongdoing and verifyour moral benevolence as a people." Of course,since Bad Religion's chief lyricist holds a Ph.D.in English literature from Cornell, a certainamount of long-winded pretentiousness is perhapsinevitable...