It would enable the militants to reinforce their comrades in the Chechen highlands, carry out partisan attacks behind Russian lines and generally prolong the war.
In Eastern Massachusetts, where I live, many are Mayans fleeing genocide in the Guatemalan highlands carried out by Reagan's favorite killers.
It recommended that NHS Highland carry out a review of its handling of the case, learn lessons from it and also apologise to the patient of Raigmore Hospital in Inverness.
During General Ríos Montt's 17-month rule in 1982 and 1983, the army swept through the Mayan highlands to flush out leftist guerrillas, slaughtering villagers, laying waste to their hamlets and crops, and killing livestock.
General Ríos Montt, 86, seized power in 1982 and ruled Guatemala for 17 months during a time when the army intensified its scorched-earth operations in the Mayan highlands to flush out leftist guerrillas.
Chief among them is the contentious and ill-defined Saudi-Yemeni frontier, wiggling its way through the Asir tribal highlands and out into a featureless but oily desert.
Part of the Gughe mountain range, the Gamo highlands rise out of the Ethiopian Rift Valley to elevations above 4000 m, in a chain roughly 100 km long (06˚ 02–27′N, 37˚10 37′E).
So far, alliances have proved elusive between Indians in the Amazon and indigenous groups in highland areas, ruling out, for now, the kind of broad indigenous protest movements that helped oust governments in neighboring Ecuador and Bolivia earlier in the decade.
Owing to large differences in the length of the growing period, pools in semi-arid highland habitats dry out faster than pools in humid lowland habitats.
Then, there was the peak-foliage theory, which took into account the fact that the wind that evening was coming from the northwest — out of the highlands of New York and New Jersey, where the maples have been shedding their leaves.
