Word: attacked
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...cherished ritual: the front runner hides or glides above the pack, the underdogs issue position papers and attack the leader for dodging tough questions. Vice President Bush did it in the summer of 1987, and George W. is doing much the same thing. The rule doesn't apply to the Democrats this time because Gore, with his welter of proposals, is already fighting the general election, and the gauzy Bill Bradley is, as always, playing by his own rules. Gore's pollster, Mark Penn, notes that when voters are asked about Bush's stands on specific issues such as abortion...
...advisers are eager to ensure that Operation Allied Force adds some fin-de-siecle twists. For starters, it has made the once gawky Clinton Administration far more confident mixing force and diplomacy overseas. Last week a buoyed Clinton, greatly relieved that NATO jets weren't still flying attack sorties over the former Yugoslavia, took his own jet for a postwar, feel-good victory lap in Europe. Air Force One stopped first in Paris, where Clinton had a cozy bistro dinner with French President Jacques Chirac. Next it was off to Cologne for a conference of Western leaders. Clinton ended...
...Belgrade's military chiefs went back to the planning board. Instead of the massive "sweep" of the original attack, they developed a wickedly clever alternative: a series of smaller sweeps against the K.L.A. that would be combined with a wholesale assault on the civilian population. This two-punch would have the double purpose of depriving the K.L.A. of ground support and permanently altering Kosovo's demographics. Cities and towns would be emptied to depopulate the province. The VJ would shell villages so the police and paramilitaries could move in to put the population to flight, torch their houses and kill...
Bibi was never comfortable with all this peacemaking, and now he?s bowing out as Israel?s prime minister with both guns blazing. Israeli warplanes pounded targets in Beirut and north Lebanon overnight Friday following a rocket attack on Israel by the Islamic guerrilla movement Hezbollah, and warned of more to come. Incoming prime minister Ehud Barak was not consulted on the decision, and he may prefer it that way. "Making peace with Syria, which controls Lebanon, is Barak?s priority, and he?s not going to let skirmishes with Hezbollah get in the way," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief...
Israel killed at least eight and wounded more than 60 Lebanese in attacks on roads and power stations that left Beirut in darkness. Earlier Thursday, a Hezbollah rocket strike killed two civilians in the northern Israel town of Kiryat Shmona. Hezbollah said it had struck in retaliation for an attack by Israel?s proxy, the South Lebanon Army, which killed a Lebanese civilian. That sequence underlines the volatile situation in South Lebanon. But though bombing Beirut may be designed to put pressure on Lebanon to rein in Hezbollah, Israel knows the key to peace in the area is Syria. Still...