The situation has deteriorated to such a degree that soldiers — Mr. Mugabe's enduring muscle — rioted last week on the streets of the capital, breaking windows and looting stores, after waiting days in bank lines without being able to withdraw their meager salaries from cash-short tellers.
Mr. Candell took advantage of Operation Recognition, a program begun in 2000 by the State Education Department that awards high school degrees to soldiers whose schooling was interrupted by World War II or the Korean War.
For three weeks in temperatures soaring well above 100 degrees, African soldiers in groups of a dozen to two dozen teamed up with advisers from the United States or NATO allies like Spain, Italy, France or the Netherlands to practice marksmanship, patrol harsh desert terrain and resupply those patrols with airdrops.
The temperature often drops to minus 40 degrees, and the soldiers, camping in igloos at elevations of up to 22,000 feet, must contend with altitude sickness, high winds and frostbite.
The visit was arranged so Mr. Clinton could receive an honorary degree and visit American soldiers serving with the United Nations peace-keeping force.
Serial refinements permitted Colin MacLeod and Michael Heidelberger to conduct a 1944-45 clinical trial of quadrivalent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPV), demonstrating a high degree of efficacy in soldiers against pneumococcal pneumonia.
"I could see the point where the soldiers fired, and then swivel 180 degrees and see the other direction.
"They have ordinary soldiers with degrees, who speak three languages".
Journalists cannot help reflecting to some degree the viewpoint of the soldiers they are accompanying.
The dispute has raised real questions about the degree to which either Israeli soldiers or United Nations workers here, two groups emotionally and physically battered by two years of warfare, are succeeding in distinguishing friend from foe.
