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Ben Werner, Student Newspaper Editor
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Mexico April 20 2001 The Mexican army finished closing seven bases in the conflict-torn state of Chiapas on Friday in a key step toward the resumption of peace talks between the government and Zapatista rebels.
Masked rebel leaders of the Zapatista National Liberation Army were to be escorted by the International Red Cross from their jungle bases to this impoverished highlands town late on Wednesday with formal negotiations starting on Thursday morning.
The camps are surrounded by military bases and subject to constant patrols from the Mexican army and their extension, the public security police of the state of Chiapas.
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Bori Gonbutoren, Reindeer Herder
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The Army has also appointed high priestesses to oversee pagan ceremonies on at least five bases.
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John Carthy, Gun Shop Sales Assistant
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The Army hopes use of the new bullets will either eliminate or reduce the need for costly cleanups of bases and shooting ranges and this could save taxpayers millions of dollars.
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Mike Enlow, Internet Marketer
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In the army now The US army is also involved in filtering by making it harder for soldiers to access porn and gambling sites, by installing Websense filtering software at more than 100 bases worldwide.
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Jack Crawford, WWII Veteran
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Army have revived memories of the "Ami Go Home" protests in West Germany during the Vietnam War-era when tens of thousands marched in anti-war rallies in front of American military bases.
Operating in two countries without bases of supply, they were able to inflict 95 Army and civilian casualties on the Americans and an unknown but heavy number on the Mexicans.
They traveled to two army bases near the Golan and, though they were shy at first, they ended up getting to know the soldiers whilst proudly having their pictures taken on an IDF tank.
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Josh Hogan, Commander
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Many merchant seamen; the army personnel who were stationed on the remote land bases and who gave an essential back-up and the airmen whose long flying hours afforded the vital air protection required for the safety and success of many convoys.
Indian warplanners felt that the use of small battlefield nuclear devices against the Pakistan Army cantonments, armoured and infantry columns and PAF bases and nuclear and military industrial facilities would not meet with an adverse reaction from the world community so long as civilian casualties could be kept to a minimum.
Bases for the blockading fleet and for other naval and military operations were needed and Hatteras Inlet, Port Royal and Roanoke Island were successively captured by joint naval and army expeditions 85.
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