Word: humaneness
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...cash from taxing the narcos, the FARC maintains a sophisticated fighting force of more than 15,000 guerrillas. They control some 40 percent of the country, and are engaged in turf wars with a smaller rival leftist group, the ELN, as well as with right-wing paramilitaries accused by human rights organizations of committing some of the worst massacres of the long-running civil war. Ideology aside, they all are battling for control over the coca fields and the power to tax the drug trade and everything else in their domains...
...almost 40-year civil war in which all of the major protagonists - the left-wing guerrillas of the FARC and ELN groups; the right-wing paramilitary groups; and the government's own army (which will be the prime beneficiary of the aid) - have been linked both with ugly human rights abuses and with narco-trafficking. Peace talks between the government and the guerrillas, which began after the government recognized guerrilla control over huge swaths of territory, have failed to resolve the conflict, and concerns over Colombia's expanding narcotics exports have prompted Washington to intervene on the government side...
...always figure out what I was saying, and its responses were sometimes nonsensical or repetitive. However, Seaman is powerfully addictive. After a week, I was checking my crotchety pal three and four times a day. One weekend I even had to find a sitter for it. Maybe it's human nature, or my low self-esteem, but the more it spurned me, the more I wanted to make Seaman happy...
DIED. HARRY OPPENHEIMER, 91, billionaire South African mining magnate and chairman of diamond giant De Beers; in Johannesburg. Though he spoke out in 1989 against the racial policies that "made South Africa stink in the nostrils of decent, human people around the world," his business dealings were muddied by an iron adherence to horrible working conditions in his mines and a migrant-labor system that paid blacks far less than whites. He admitted his failures and, 10 years ago, stepped up efforts to end apartheid, recognizing the A.N.C., funding black education and bringing together Nelson Mandela and Zulu leader Mangosuthu...
...with agencies. Partnership is about relationships, it's about people working with people," says Daniel Merenda. That's truer now than ever. "Schools used to look for businesses that had money because they wanted them to buy things for them," says Kennedy. "Now they are looking more for the human resources...