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Matt Rees' article on the Palestinian terrorist groups Hamas and Hizballah [WORLD, April 30] stated that the "Palestinians are suffering under a heavy-handed Israeli backlash." Is he indicating that the Israelis have the unmitigated chutzpah not to cooperate docilely with their own annihilation? What are they to do--just sit and wait for the knives of the terrorists to be sharpened? RUDOLPH A. MASRY Briarcliff Manor...
...patient. Because science has a way of burying every new answer in a hundred new questions, and the backlash has already begun...
...oligarchy, she genuinely wants to help them with jobs, schools and public medical care, none of which she has done in her first 100 days. Judgment may come during May 14th senatorial elections, when her handling of Estrada and the arrests of her foes is expected to cause a backlash against her 13 candidates...
MACEDONIA Albanian Insurgents Provoke Strong Backlash The risk of renewed ethnic war drew closer when 10 members of the Macedonian security forces were killed in an ambush by Albanian extremists. The assaults triggered retaliatory strikes by government forces, who attacked several Albanian villages with helicopter gunships and artillery. Masked ethnic Macedonian civilians, outraged at the rebel ambush, rampaged through Albanian communities smashing shop windows and beating residents - the first time civilians took to the streets since violence first erupted a month ago. The rebels say they are fighting for Albanian rights but have yet to distinguish their claims from those...
Brattleboro is one of Vermont's more liberal enclaves. Conservative farming communities, by contrast, saw a ferocious backlash shortly after the law's passage. Thousands of TAKE BACK VERMONT signs sprouted on lawns. Half a dozen town clerks quit rather than grant licenses to gay couples. Five state legislators who supported civil unions were defeated at the polls. But other civil-union proponents, such as Governor Howard Dean, survived, and the Take Back Vermont campaign eventually fizzled. Efforts by opponents to overturn the law have failed...