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These unorthodox struggles require a special type of soldier: bold and resourceful, often trained in the black arts of stealth and sabotage, suitable for an elite unit that can vanish into alien territory or strike anywhere with speed and surprise. Recent events have underscored the need for such mobile, small-scale fighting units. As Americans abroad have become increasingly vulnerable to terrorist attacks like the Christmas-week atrocities in Rome and Vienna, Washington has recognized more than ever the utility of a quick and certain response. At the same time, the Reagan Administration has placed increased emphasis...
...billion from 1980 to 1984, is spending about $10 million to change names. The tab includes consulting fees to Anspach Grossman Portugal, a New York City concern that, with the help of a computer, came up with 300 possible new designations. The International Harvester name, though, will not completely vanish. Case now owns it, along with the red-and-black IH logo, and is using both in advertising campaigns. AGRICULTURE Showdown at Guacamole Gulch...
...That borrowed courage can vanish when one changes from witness to participant, as Lloyd Parry learns during his reckoning in East Timor, the book's most gripping section. After the embattled province votes for its independence from Jakarta in 1999, Lloyd Parry watches as anti-independence militias, seemingly with the tacit approval of the Indonesian army, wreak havoc. But this time he's more than a spectator?the militias violently turn on journalists, forcing them to hole up in the United Nations' overcrowded compound. Inside, terrified, he listens to machine guns firing, grenades exploding and refugees wailing. He imagines rockets...
...hometown. Despite saying he would call it quits after his 2004 effort Patience, the former Wham! star is rumored to have a new album in the works, about which he's keeping mum. "My stuff can wait," he said. Funny, it was so much easier for Andrew Ridgeley to vanish...
...would be to see Paxman grill President Bush and others in his Administration. Nigel Pond Wilmington, Delaware, U.S. After Apartheid your report on race relations in South Africa 10 years after the end of apartheid was quite balanced [April 25]. Naturally, racism and racial conflict cannot simply vanish after they have been the norm for so long a time. In any case, humans everywhere engage in conflict over natural diversity. Clannishness and tribalism, for instance, both common in the rest of black Africa as sources of vicious conflict, are the offspring of the same parents as racism. Homo sapiens...