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...million phone numbers, on Oct. 1. But on Tuesday an Oklahoma federal judge said the FTC lacked such authority. Politicians heard the ringing in their ears. By Thursday--faster than any bill had cleared the Capitol since the 1941 declaration of war on Japan--Congress empowered the FTC to deploy its list...
...conflicts of any type" simultaneously, as well as carry out peacekeeping operations anywhere in the world. That's a tall order for a military that can barely handle the one conflict it's already fighting on its own soil. At the conference, Putin unveiled plans to dust off and deploy SS-19 missiles, known to NATO as "Stilettos" since 1980, to replace Russia's worn-out land-based strategic nuclear arsenal. "I'm speaking here about the most menacing missiles - with hundreds of warheads," he said. "Their capability to overcome any anti-missile defense is unrivaled." Should the world worry...
...table early, as a way to preserve the alliance (some NATO members didn't want to attack at all) and paint the war as all of Europe, and the U.S., against Yugoslavia. Clark made the best of it, eventually persuading his bosses to at least begin planning to deploy ground units. and after 78 days of increasingly heavy bombing, the strategy worked--though it took the Russians to persuade Milosevic to surrender...
...army's Operation Defensive Shield in spring 2002 left Israeli troops positioned in and around every major Palestinian city in the West Bank. Except for the Bethlehem area, from which they withdrew, the Israelis still hold those positions, allowing commanders to contain the movements of possible terrorists and deploy troops at a moment's notice when intelligence pinpoints...
Nevertheless, only one suicide bomber needs to slip into Israel to wreak carnage on the country's streets. Israeli intelligence officials say Hamas still has the ability to regenerate and deploy new cells faster than Israeli forces can uncover them. That explains, an official says, how two suicide bombers from the same cell in Ramallah managed to hit their targets last week...