Word: neta
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...Sadly for the Acehnese, GAM's principal strategy will probably be to goad the military into committing the kind of brutal excesses it perpetrated in East Timor. "They know that they can't win, so they will keep trying to embarrass Jakarta and the army," says Neta Pane, author of the 2001 book GAM: Its History and Strength. He adds: "I was told by a top GAM official that they were going to use Viet Cong tactics, taking off their uniforms and mixing with the ordinary village people. And, of course, that feeds into the army's suspicions?they...
...member AAS—the only professional society of astronomers in the United States—announced Friday that its members had voted by mail-in ballot to elect Kirshner over sole contender Neta A. Bahcall, a professor of astrophysics at Princeton University...
...next generation. What do the children think? Mariana, the Zeidans' fourth-grader, says, "If I said I don't get scared by the tanks, I would be lying. But I believe there will be peace, and a state for the Israelis and a state for the Palestinians." Neta, the Simons' 5-year-old, recently asked her mom if the Palestinian gunmen she was watching on TV had children. Orly said they did. "I want to look them in the eyes," said Neta. The way her mother sees it, the child's instinct is not to hate, but to understand...
...might try to resist. But when he woke up, he gave himself up without a fight." Perhaps not a surprising reaction from the multimillionaire businessman who received a warm hug from Jakarta's chief of police when he was brought in to police headquarters. "His capture was orchestrated," concludes Neta Pane, co-chairman of Indonesia Police Watch. "I think the police have known all along where he was and were only waiting for the right moment to bring...