Word: vieira
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...windowless first-floor conference room has been transformed into a fully operational command center. Color-coded floor plans and organizational charts of key personnel adorn the walls, and teams of sturdy men and women wearing fatigues swing in and out, ready to be deployed. Air Force Lieut. Colonel Steven Vieira oversees the operation, dispatching troops swiftly but carefully. His goal is "100% contact and saturation." The enemy is not human but ghostly, flickering here and there on the faces of the nearly 20,000 Pentagon employees who once thought their building was untouchable and now walk by the west wall...
...country," says East Timor's last governor, Abilio Soares. According to Indonesian police Brigadier-General Jaki Uly, the former militiamen still have guns. Some parade and drill with Indonesian civil defense units. "Refugees tell us of militia concentrations and training," says the U.N.'s Colonel Rob Holt. Mario Vieira, spokesman for the pro-integration political group Uni Timor Aswain (UNTAS), threatens economic turmoil for the new nation. "We will never give up," he says. Former commander-in-chief Jo?so Tavares believes the recent election has been a setback for peace. "Soon you will probably hear the conflict is going...
...Former militia company commanders are suspected of orchestrating border incursions. "They have strong feelings and minds about their homeland," says Eurico Guterres of these men, some his subordinates in the Aitarak militia. The ex-militiamen "feel abandoned," says UNTAS spokesman Vieira. "But they do these things as individuals, not as an organization." But former commander Nemecio de Carvalho claims that Guterres and Jo?o Tavares are keeping the hard-liners active, ordering and funding "clandestine activities, with support from the (Indonesian) military and retired generals." Both men deny involvement...
...Timor, many former militia commanders are pressuring their followers to remain in the west until an amnesty agreement is reached. Some say likely East Timorese President Xanana Gusmao has already promised such a deal. "Xanana told us many times that if he is President we will have amnesty," says Vieira. Jo?o Tavares says an amnesty is vital. "If this is not accepted, then the future will be one of prolonged conflict," he warns...
...else would Bolton sign Nishizawa, goes the argument, after the player had just returned to Japan from an unremarkable spell at Spanish side R.C.D. EspaNyol? And how much playing time will Inamoto get in an Arsenal midfield that already boasts players like Robert Pires and?for now, anyway?Patrick Vieira? When English side West Ham United embarked on an unsuccessful attempt to sign Gamba Osaka's Tsuneyasu Miyamoto earlier this year, then-manager Harry Redknapp quipped: "I think we've already sold 200,000 shirts in Japan on the back of it. By the time we've finished I could...