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...been to eliminate the lag time between a Palestinian attack and an Israeli retaliation; use tank shells, rockets and mortars in response to shooters; deploy helicopter gunships to selectively assassinate suspected militants; work behind the lines to capture enemy soldiers; and if necessary, seal off entire Palestinian neighborhoods and conduct house-to-house searches. And Sharon has instructed Peres to tell the Palestinians that all that there is to talk about is stopping the violence...
...Branegan: I think Washington is proposing that the U.S. and China conduct a joint investigation into the incident, saying "Let's figure out how this happened." There is an existing mechanism for such an inquiry under a previous maritime agreement. So you can see where the government wants to take this - away from a confrontation. Powell is saying let's isolate the problem, and deal with it. The problem here is that they think we did something wrong, and we think we didn't. There's a disagreement about what happened in the air. So let's figure...
Rugby's Bum Rap FOUL PLAY. Finally, and how long we've waited, proof arrives that those friendly pats on the butt between athletes can get completely out of hand. Australian rugby star John Hopoate got arm deep in trouble last week for conduct unbecoming anywhere outside a proctologist's office. Three fellow players complained that Hopoate, during matches, stuck his finger up their backsides. "At first I was very surprised," said accuser Wendell Sailor, who claimed he was "jabbed" by Hopoate last month. "He just stood there and smiled at me." The authorities barred Hopoate from competing...
...Bush and Jiang faced similar internal crosswinds, they did so within very different time frames. The Chinese have been waiting 50 years for Japan to apologize for its conduct in World War II. Bush is living in a 24-hour news cycle, in which impatience is a virtue. "Bush's tough instincts were right," says a Republican lobbyist, "but they were counterproductive. He should have known that the Chinese don't respond well to bluster." It would have been better, say several Republican foreign policy veterans, to be belligerent in private and play a sweeter song in public. "By saying...
...government has staunchly defended police conduct, although Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi?who is also Home Minister and responsible for supervising the force?has acknowledged that the police have a p.r. problem. Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has gone on the offensive. In parliament last week, he warned that his government was willing to break with "so-called international norms" to preserve peace...