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...Israeli government, as any responsible government would, had a duty, indeed a right, to protect its citizens, under Article 51 of the UN Charter. The 1978 Litani operation failed to prevent subsequent PLO terrorism, so the government was entitled to use whatever means necessary to eradicate the northern threat once and for all. The massive PLO infrastructure necessarily required that the Israelis proceed further than their originally stated 25 mile limit...
...outspoken and steadfast in his support of a police department that was regarded by black leaders and liberals as particularly highhanded and even brutal, especially while he had been its chief, in the patrolling of Philadelphia's black neighborhoods. When he tried to amend the city charter in 1978 so he could run for a third consecutive term, blacks registered and voted in unprecedented numbers in a successful effort to checkmate his move. Now, after a three-year retirement, the redoubtable Rizzo, 62, is running again, hoping to succeed Democratic Incumbent Mayor William Green, who, his popularity...
...witness the rapidity with which Israel's defenders would forget the numerous and severe offenses committed by Israel against international law both before and after the Sabra and Shatila massacres. The most important of these offenses was the invasion of Lebanon itself, which violated articles of the U.N. charter prohibiting the use of force international relations, as well as U.N. General Assembly resolutions defining aggression and declaring the inadmissibility of intervention in another state. The massive scale of death and destruction caused by the Israeli forces in Lebanon far outweighed any actual or potential harm inflicted upon Israel by Palestinian...
...Self), but company executives believed that a cultural magazine could have even greater appeal "upscale" and invested as much as $15 million to develop the idea. Next week 732,000 copies of the first Vanity Fair in 47 years will be sent to newsstands and more than 600,000 charter subscribers...
...charter has been removed from the archives for every Harvard president's inauguration although sometimes this maneuver can be tricky. In 1971, when President Bok was sworn into office. Holden and a convoy of University officials had to escort the document to University Hall via underground steam tunnels, out of fear that student protestors might damage the relic. (The mood of students at the inauguration proved so congenial, Holden recalls, that he made the return trip above ground...