These missiles are mostly medium range ( 2000 – 4000 m ), though some such as 9M117M1 Arkan has a range of 5, 500 m. Others may carry surface-to-air missiles or a combination of the two, such as the 2T Stalker.

He is a lord of Darkness, the evil force that threatens Edil-Amarandh, and is obeyed by several other evil beings, among them the mountain spirit Landrost and the Ice Witch Arkan, although Maerad has reason to believe differently of Arkan in particular.

In one of the earlier chapters of The Singing, Arkan is shown contacting Maerad by telepathy, scoffing at her fear of the creatures Sharma has sent against her.

After the U. S. bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, which killed three journalists and led to a diplomatic row between the U. S. and People ’ s Republic of China, NATO and various Western media claimed the building might have been targeted because the office of the Chinese military attaché was being used by Arkan to communicate and transmit messages to his paramilitary group, the Tigers, in Kosovo.

In March 1999, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ( ICTY ) announced that Željko Ražnatović ( Arkan ) had been indicted by the Tribunal, although the indictment was only made public after Arkan ’ s assassination.

According to the indictment Arkan should have been prosecuted on 24 charges of crimes against humanity ( Art.

I publicly accused Arkan.

Arkan grew up in the 27th March Street, in Belgrade, SR Serbia with three older sisters in a strict, militaristic household with beatings administered by his father being a regular occurrence.

Despite being raised an atheist in a family of communists, Arkan made a point of showing public respects to the Serbian Orthodox Church, especially its head Patriarch Pavle.

Red Star brought over 3, 000 fans to the game with the late Željko Ražnatović ( known as Arkan ) a Serbian paramilitary leader being a prominent member.

* Arkan Simaan, L ' Écuyer d ' Henri le Navigateur, Éditions l ' Harmattan, Paris.

Željko Ražnatović (, ), widely known as Arkan ( Аркан ; 17 April 1952 – 15 January 2000 ) was a Serbian career criminal and later a paramilitary leader who was notable for organizing and leading a paramilitary force in the Yugoslav Wars.

Arkan was assassinated in 2000 before his trial.

He also spent a part of his childhood in Zagreb and Pančevo, before his father's job eventually took the family to Belgrade, which Arkan considered his hometown.

In a 1991 interview for Duga magazine, Arkan recalled: " He didn't really hit me in a classical sense, he'd basically grab me and slam me against the floor.

Arkan ran away from home for the first time at age nine.

Based on the rare occasions when Arkan attended school, he was said to be a decent student with a quick and argumentative mind.

Arkan was arrested for the first time in 1966 and spent a year at a juvenile detention center not far from Belgrade.

His father then sent him to the seaside town of Kotor to join the Yugoslav Navy, but Arkan had other plans, ending up in Paris at the age of 15.

In his youth, Arkan was a ward of his father's friend, the Slovenian politician and Federal Minister of the Interior, Stane Dolanc.

Whenever Arkan was in trouble Dolanc helped him as a reward for his services to the Yugoslav secret state police ( UDBA ), as seen in the escape from the Lugano prison in 1981.

Stane Dolanc is quoted as having said: " One Arkan is worth more than the whole UDBA.

He took the nickname " Arkan " from one of his forged passports.

Though Arkan was rearrested in the Netherlands on 24 October 1979, the few months he was free were enough for at least two more armed robberies in Sweden and three more in Holland.

It is widely speculated that Arkan was closely affiliated with Yugoslav security service UDBA throughout his criminal career abroad.

Arkan learned the main European languages because of his undercover work in Western Europe.

Arkan returned to Yugoslavia in May 1983, continuing his criminal career by opening a number of illegal businesses.

In November 1983, two federal policemen ambushed Arkan at his house in order to have him arrested and interrogated over some of his activities.

Only days after the Croatian elections in 1990, Arkan, who was the leader of the Delije, football fans of the Belgrade club Red Star Belgrade, was at place when Croatian Dinamo Zagreb played home against the Red Star at Stadion Maksimir on May 13, a match that ended in a riot.

Arkan and his group, consisting of 1500 people, were inrolled in a huge fight with the home team football hooligans.

On 11 October 1990, as the political, ethnic, and religious situation in the former Yugoslavia became tense ( see Log Revolution ), Arkan created a paramilitary group named the Serb Volunteer Guard, possibly under the auspices of the Department of State Security.

Arkan was the supreme commander of the unit, which was primarily made up of members of the Delije and his friends.

Besides I heard her old uncle that stays there has been doin' it ''.

Southern resentment has been over the method of its ending, the invasion, and Reconstruction ; ;

The situation of the South since 1865 has been unique in the western world.

The North should thank its stars that such has been the case ; ;

As it is, they consider that the North is now reaping the fruits of excess egalitarianism, that in spite of its high standard of living the `` American way '' has been proved inferior to the English and Scandinavian ways, although they disapprove of the socialistic features of the latter.

In what has aptly been called a `` constitutional revolution '', the basic nature of government was transformed from one essentially negative in nature ( the `` night-watchman state '' ) to one with affirmative duties to perform.

For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.

Labor relations have been transformed, income security has become a standardized feature of political platforms, and all the many facets of the American version of the welfare state have become part of the conventional wisdom.

Historically, however, the concept is one that has been of marked benefit to the people of the Western civilizational group.

In recent weeks, as a result of a sweeping defense policy reappraisal by the Kennedy Administration, basic United States strategy has been modified -- and large new sums allocated -- to meet the accidental-war danger and to reduce it as quickly as possible.

The malignancy of such a landscape has been beautifully described by the Australian Charles Bean.

There has probably always been a bridge of some sort at the southeastern corner of the city.

Even though in most cases the completion of the definitive editions of their writings is still years off, enough documentation has already been assembled to warrant drawing a new composite profile of the leadership which performed the heroic dual feats of winning American independence and founding a new nation.

Madison once remarked: `` My life has been so much a public one '', a comment which fits the careers of the other six.

Thus we are compelled to face the urbanization of the South -- an urbanization which, despite its dramatic and overwhelming effects upon the Southern culture, has been utterly ignored by the bulk of Southern writers.

But the South is, and has been for the past century, engaged in a wide-sweeping urbanization which, oddly enough, is not reflected in its literature.

An example of the changes which have crept over the Southern region may be seen in the Southern Negro's quest for a position in the white-dominated society, a problem that has been reflected in regional fiction especially since 1865.

In the meantime, while the South has been undergoing this phenomenal modernization that is so disappointing to the curious Yankee, Southern writers have certainly done little to reflect and promote their region's progress.

Faulkner culminates the Southern legend perhaps more masterfully than it has ever been, or could ever be, done.

The `` approximate '' is important, because even after the order of the work has been established by the chance method, the result is not inviolable.

But it has been during the last two centuries, during the scientific revolution, that our independence from the physical environment has made the most rapid strides.

In the life sciences, there has been an enormous increase in our understanding of disease, in the mechanisms of heredity, and in bio- and physiological chemistry.

Even in domains where detailed and predictive understanding is still lacking, but where some explanations are possible, as with lightning and weather and earthquakes, the appropriate kind of human action has been more adequately indicated.

The persistent horror of having a malformed child has, I believe, been reduced, not because we have gained any control over this misfortune, but precisely because we have learned that we have so little control over it.