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...Similarly, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder denounced the attack, as did various leaders from Arab nations. Here in the United States, however, the Bush administration supported Israel’s attack as a fair defense tactic. President Bush argued: “Israel’s got a right to defend herself; that Israel must not feel constrained in terms of defending the homeland.” Likewise, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon defended Sunday’s attack as necessary retaliation to an earlier suicide bombing in Israel that left 20 people dead. “[It] was intended...
...Saturday, Harvard heads to New Haven, Conn., to try and defend its unblemished conference record against Yale...
...irresponsible failure to defend the rights of the insane, the United States Supreme Court has consented by inaction to let states make mentally incompetent convicts take antipsychotic drugs so they will be sane enough to be executed. Last Monday, on its first day of session, the Court chose to let stand a federal appeals court ruling that Charles L. Singleton, who was sentenced to death in Arkansas for a 1979 murder and later became insane, could be forced to take medication, restoring his sanity and making him eligible for execution...
...looms above his home went on high alert for attempts to kidnap them from across the border. Sharon himself hinted the raid on the camp, at Ein Saheb, 15 km west of Damascus, may not be the last. "If they don't understand the message," he said, "Israel will ... defend itself whenever [it] is convinced that Syria is assisting the Palestinian terrorist organizations." Metula (pop. 2,000) and the other small towns along Israel's northern border have seen violent times before. During Israel's 18-year occupation of a strip of southern Lebanon, there were occasional rocket attacks...
...They have great energy and a great work rate,” Kerr said. “They can defend. They can put great pressure on the ball. Plus, offensively, they’re a handful. They can take you on one on one; they can play it and get it back...