Word: deportment
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...general. In a country that prizes simple virtues, he dresses a little too well, speaks a little too glibly. It was no surprise then that a large part of the military brass saw Peres' response to Hamas as insufficient. Peres' initial rejection of the army's proposal to deport families of the suicide bombers to Lebanon caused frustration. "We think that in the future these guys will think twice if they know that after they're gone, we're going to put their parents on a boat with two sandwiches and dump them on the Lebanese shore," says a high...
...Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. Buchanan insists he's not sending out an anti-Semitic signal. Somehow anti-Semites are hearing it anyway. Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the vaudeville-ready Russian presidential contender, was moved to send Buchanan fraternal greetings last week and to suggest that they could cooperate to deport Jews from both the U.S. and Russia. Buchanan, appalled, fired back his refusal...
...Vladimir V. Zhirinovsky, the Russian ultranationalist candidate, could call him a "brother in arms" and acknowledge a problem they share. "You say that Congress is Israeli-occupied territory. We have the same situation in Russia. So to survive, we could set aside places on U.S. and Russian territory to deport this small but troublesome tribe...
...tough anti-terrorism bill as unconstitutional.Acting CIA DirectorWilliam Studeman and other Administration officials countered that the legislation is necessary because Americans have become potential targets of international terrorism, such as the 1993World Trade Center bombing. The bill would expand wiretapping authority, ban fundraising by terrorist groups and speed deportation of immigrants suspected of terrorism. "Are we going to allow the government to deport aliens convicted of no crime, based on secret information?" asked Conyers. Sponsor Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said the bill strikes "a careful, rational balance" between preserving rights and protecting Americans from terrorists...
Decisions of justice have to be reached through careful consideration of the circumstances and the possible consequences. When Rabin deported the Hamas activists, he knew that the consequences of not taking severe actions could be dire. Indeed, most of the Hamas leaders behind the recent terrorist attacks were among the 400, former deportees. Rabin's decision to deport the 400 Hamas terrorists was firmly rooted in reason. His decision to allow them back into Israel was a surrender to emotion...