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...term “just peace” was not clearly defined, and that their vigils were not intended to be confrontational. At noon yesterday in the Yard, about 54 people congregated to show support for civilian victims of violence in Israel and voice their opinions about the conflict, Rohr said. The gathering lasted for half an hour, as demonstrators waved Israeli flags and held up signs demanding peace and the release of the imprisoned Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who was kidnapped by Palestinians affiliated with Hamas in June. Dana A. Stern...
...Meanwhile, to replace the hundreds of fighters fallen in the last conflict, Hizballah is recruiting eager new volunteers; the best of them are heading to Iran for further war training, according to Israeli sources and Western diplomats in Beirut. Hizballah leaders are also trying to figure out how to do a better job of hiding their long-range missiles; nearly all of their last supply was destroyed by Israeli aircraft in the opening days...
...some guardians of Texas lands and legacy are less amenable, among them Jack Hunt, chief executive officer of the legendary King Ranch, headquartered in South Texas. A recent bid by a Scottish company to build a wind farm on the neighboring Kenedy Ranch brought Hunt into the fray and conflict between two ranches...
...occurs around 26 weeks, not the 20 weeks the bill stipulates. (An article in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggested pain was unlikely before 29 weeks; but the bill's defenders pointed out that some of the paper's authors were abortion rights activists with a clear conflict of interest...
...which the U.S. has been involved, and comes away impressed. In Vietnam, for example, he writes that the number of civilians killed per month was nine times higher than in Iraq. "Even if the estimates for Iraq are off by a factor of two or three," Kahl writes, "the conflict's casualty count is far lower than that in previous U.S. counterinsurgency campaigns...