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In Zimbabwe, evil has an ordinary face
HARARE, Zimbabwe - When Robert Mugabe's "green bombers" walk the streets, they know everyone else is afraid of them. But what everyone else doesn't realize is that the green bombers are frightened of them, too. The youth militias are so notorious here...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Defense, Robert Mugabe, Juvenile Delinquency
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Former Argentine army chief gets life
A court sentenced one of Argentina's most feared former military leaders to life in prison on Thursday for the 1977 kidnapping, torture and killing of four activists. Luciano Benjamin Menendez, 81, was commander of the regional 3rd Army Corps in...Tags: Defense
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Missile crew slept holding code devices
WASHINGTON Air Force officials say three ballistic missile crew members in North Dakota fell asleep while holding classified launch code devices this month, triggering an investigation by military and National Security Agency experts. The probe found that...Tags: Air and Space Accidents, Defense, Weaponry, North Dakota, National Security
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What ex-hostage will say now
Sometimes they form on their own, the sentences do. Like rain from clouds. I don't so much write as record them. Like a secretary taking dictation. The sentences are just there in the morning, waiting for me. A psychiatrist could probably explain it or,...Tags: Defense, Elections, Political Candidates
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Fawning over Obama
With all three major network news anchors and a huge contingent of reporters chasing after him, Sen. Barack Obama's cutting an impressive figure in the Middle East and Europe this week. He consulted with Iraqi leaders, hobnobbed with American soldiers,...Tags: Defense, Primaries, Elections, Barack Obama, Political Candidates
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On this day in history
On July 25, 1866 Ulysses Grant was promoted to the rank of general of the Army—the first officer to wear five stars. In 1907 Japan imposed a protectorate on Korea. In 1934 Nazi Black Guard troops assassinated Austrian Chancellor Engelbert...Tags: Defense, Air France-KLM, Yitzhak Rabin, Bing Crosby, Cole Porter
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Capture of Karadzic adds to Srebrenica's ethnic divide
Tribune NewspapersSREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina—The legacy of Radovan Karadzic is etched here in unsmiling, mistrustful faces; on tombstones that march shoulder-to-shoulder for nearly a quarter-mile; in empty, scarred houses whose owners never returned. Karadzic's...Tags: Defense, International Court or Tribunal, International Law, War Crimes, Massacres
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Middletown Council Expected To Oppose Site For Training Base
Courant Staff WriterThe $90 million, 273,000-square-foot Army Reserve training base slated for the Westfield section would overwhelm the residential neighborhood, destroy the natural habitat and cause serious flooding and traffic problems, a proposed common council...Tags: William Warner, Natural Resources, Middletown, Defense, Farms
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Suicide bomb kills 8 in Iraq
Associated PressA female suicide bomber blew herself up near U.S.-allied Sunni Arab fighters walking in a crowded area of Baqouba, killing at least eight of the guards and wounding 24 other people last night, police said. The attack comes as the U.S.-backed Iraqi...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Defense, Civil Unrest, Death and Dying, Rebellions
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Veterans get ALS disability
Sun reporterThe Department of Veterans Affairs plans to provide full disability payments for Lou Gehrig's disease, tacitly acknowledging for the first time a generalized link between the fatal neurological disorder and military service. Veterans and patient...Tags: Illnesses, Defense, Lou Gehrig, People, National Institutes of Health
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