Word: bases
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...Republican Party," he crowed. "Well, we've made room." The next day in South Carolina, he said his campaign would attract not just "hard-core Republicans" but also "Reagan Democrats and independents--I think that's a sign of electability. I would like to preserve our Republican base and make [it] attractive to Democrats the same way Ronald Reagan did." That could be the most crucial lesson McCain learned from any of his heroes: become the living, breathing symbol of what voters want, and the fine points of the plan might not mean so much...
...only [six] years old," Reinert says. "Cash flow is always a problem. Finance is always a problem. But they are just destroying the base of our company...
Last week the troops came out of the heart of Burma's darkness to engage in a century-against-century collision straight from Apocalypse Now. Ten of the young fighters wrapped their faces in black masks, left their home base on Kersay Doh, or "God's Mountain," commandeered a bus to cross the nearby Thai border and took 500 patients and staff hostage in a hospital in the town of Ratchaburi. Big mistake. They had wanted to protest recent shelling by Thai military units, who were cooperating with the Burmese military junta to roust out hill tribes and make...
There is a church in the twins' village, and both Johnny and Luther are Baptists who claim to base their moral guidelines on Christian beliefs. But "when their soldiers died in the struggle against the Burmese, they moved backward to the old gods," says Sunai Phasuk of Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University. Christian teachings combined seamlessly with ancient native messianic traditions to build up belief in the twins' mystical powers...
...most of the Karen villagers who live close to the God's Army base still believe the twins have the supernatural strength to defy the Burmese army and allow them to return to a peaceful life free of outside interference. Plee, the refugee Karen woman, nostalgically recalled a Christmas feast in 1998 in Ka Mar Pa Law, where the main dishes were a giant lizard, monkey, deer and wild vegetables. "We ate three times a day, and there was singing and dancing all night...