Word: attackable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...revenue officials plan to attack the drug dealers matter-of-factly. If a dealer's records show he sold $100,000 worth of drugs, "he should have been charging a 5 percent sales tax. He should have gotten $105,000 from the [sales] and then turned that $5000 over to the state," Houghteling said...
...that would give him almost unlimited control over the nationalized companies. But Menem has so far offered no details about his privatization drive. Those particulars are not likely to come soon. On Friday, only six days after joining Menem's Cabinet, Economic Minister Miguel Roig died of a heart attack. His replacement, businessman Nestor Rapanelli, will be the fourth Economic Minister since March 31, when Juan Sourrouille resigned because of his inability to stabilize the economy...
...each move served only to further sour relations with Israel. When Washington passed word that it hoped the Israeli government would remain intact, Labor leaders denounced the bid as a "gross interference in Israel's internal affairs." When the Bush Administration described as "senseless and tragic" a Palestinian attack on % an Israeli bus two weeks ago that resulted in 14 deaths, Israeli officials were furious that the U.S. had not denounced the act as terrorism. And when a U.S. official implied that Israel and the P.L.O., using American intermediaries, had engaged in secret contacts, Labor and Likud responded with...
...intercommunal war is steadily escalating. As in Lebanon, vigilante violence strikes innocents engaged in the most prosaic activities. As a result, people on both sides of the conflict have come to feel that even their individual survival hangs in the balance. Those who contend that the recent Palestinian attack on a bus full of civilians could be something other than a foretaste of future horrors are urged to recall that after 18 months of sticks and stones, the intifadeh command last month instructed its followers to "kill a settler or a soldier for every martyr of our people." And those...
More than 200 civilians were killed by official count in the army attack on protesters and supporters. Western intelligence sources said as many as 3000 may have died. Thousands have been arrested nationwide and at least 12 have been executed...