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...hiding behind a cupboard in a neighbor's house. When the killing reached the street outside, the neighbor took her and the children to a military camp. The génocidaires showed up there asking for them, so he hid the family under some sacks of rice on a truck heading south to Butare. They were discovered en route at a Hutu militia roadblock, but the truck driver bought their freedom. Once in Butare, Jacqueline was reunited with her husband and the family hid for a further three years. Finally in 1998, with their home in Kigali destroyed, they returned...
...things it can do, but little by little its operations are being more and more restricted," says Philip Coyle, who monitored the V-22's development as the Pentagon's top weapons tester from 1994 to 2001. The V-22 can fly safely "if used like a truck, carrying people from one safe area to another safe area," he says. "But I don't see them using it in combat situations where they will have to do a lot of maneuvering...
...severely ... He told me that I needed to repent, that I was not living up to my vows, I was not being obedient, I was not being submissive, and that was what my problem was," she said. She stayed married for more than three years--ultimately sleeping in a truck to avoid her husband--before she left to marry another man, whose child she was already carrying...
...worn-down office building abutting a sprawling slum. When rains flooded the streets, many employees chose to stay the night rather than wade through the filthy water. Entwistle points out the Dumpster that the firm donated to the block, as well as the spot where the generator truck running the trading floor used to park. "When you're working out of a dump, you know you've really got people's loyalty," Entwistle says. Another benefit, he notes wryly: "It's not hard to get them to go out and meet clients...
...from the Gulf only two days earlier. Like many anti-Syrian legislators, he had spent the summer months abroad out of safety concerns. Eight prominent anti-Syrian figures have been killed in a series of assassinations since February 2005 when former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri died in a massive truck bomb blast. Many Lebanese have blamed Syria for the killings and an ongoing United Nations investigation has suggested that Damascus was responsible. Syria has denied any involvement in the assassinations...