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...Israel. That follows Tuesday's withering barrage against targets associated with Arafat, which destroyed his helicopters in Gaza and a building adjacent to his Ramallah office. But despite the dramatic visuals, the strikes were a carefully calibrated symbolic use of Israel's awesome military power rather than a frontal assault on the PA. The Israelis were metaphorically shooting at Arafat's feet to get him dancing. The message: Launch a wholesale crackdown on Hamas and Islamic Jihad, or else. And that's a demand strongly supported by the Bush administration, whose statements since the weekend's terror attacks have conspicuously...
...State Supreme Court for mishandling nearly $6 million in securities owned by a drug-smuggling client, remains a member of the Massachusetts bar. SENTENCED. JONATHAN KING, 56, British pop star first known for Everyone's Gone to the Moon (1965), to seven years' imprisonment on six charges of indecent assault and sex abuse of teenage boys in the 1980s; in London...
...Since Sept. 11, a President who once seemed indifferent to world opinion is now obsessed with courting and shaping it. An Administration once focused on domestic issues is now driven by a global assault on terror. The White House domestic stance has also changed. From mocking the size and power of the Federal Government, Bush is now heaping on it new responsibilities as he combats the possibility of further attacks...
...assault on Kandahar - last of the Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan - is coming soon. The Marines are on the ground, holding down the airfield outside the city with help Army, Navy and Air Force personnel. U.S. bombing raids Sunday and Monday succeeded in destroying all but one route in and out. Equipment is pouring in. And in Washington, Donald Rumsfeld used another Sunday-talkie appearance to warn Americans that their sons and daughters in uniform are "entering a very dangerous aspect of this conflict." In other words, prepare for casualties...
...talk about it, but it doesn?t seem to make much sense to me, according to what I?ve heard. First, there?s only 1,200 or so of them there - not really the size that you?d expect to be a part of a vanguard assault on the city. As one official put it, "that?s enough to get into trouble, but not enough to get out." In other words, you don?t want to cross that Mogadishu line where you?ve got U.S. forces stuck in the middle of a disaster without sufficient support...