Word: assaults
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JACK WHITE'S ASSAULT ON SUPREME Court Justice Clarence Thomas [Dividing Line, June 26] was notable for its meanspirited effort to demonize Justice Thomas. White seeks to reduce Thomas to a curiosity and thereby minimize the importance of his contribution to the Supreme Court. Any fair person who has read Thomas' decisions is forced to admit that he has emerged as an intellectually vigorous voice on the court. His writings this term, like those of previous years, have articulated a robust judicial philosophy that properly respects the text and history of the Constitution and show due sensitivity for the policymaking...
...details of the policy will have to be spelled out soon. As the ministers sat down in London, one safe area -- Srebrenica -- had already fallen and another -- Zepa -- was about to fall. Gorazde was surrounded, under artillery fire. If the Serb commander, General Ratko Mladic, presses ahead with his assault, the U.N. and NATO will then be pledged to strike...
...negotiator Jeffrey Jamar, who recommended the plan to end the siege with a tear gas assault, challenged a cult lawyer's assertion that "some desk-bound bureaucrat in Washington" overrode a negotiated surrender agreement between the FBI and Branch Davidians. Jamar, who made the call, said evidence suggested that cult leader David Koresh's offer to surrender was nothing but a ruse. Koresh, said Jamar, "constantly would make promises he did not keep...
...girl invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer questions. Her attorney explained her actions by citing worries that Heard's testimony might differ from what she said six months earlier, when she recanted accusations Reynolds had sex with her. Why she recanted is unclear. Charged withcriminal sexual assault,aggravated criminal sexual abuse, child pornography and obstruction of justice, Reynolds, a 43-year old Rhodes scholar, on Tuesday listened stone-faced to himself urge Beverly Heard to "tell me about a sex thing you did," and to set up a "threesome" with a 15-year old girl. The two-term...
Republicans continued a partisan assault, saying the Clinton Administration has stonewalled requests for information about Waco, engaging in "a mass public relations and damage control campaign." A committee Democrat insisted that the Administration has been "completely forthcoming...