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...armed attack occurs" (not "is likely to occur") against a nation. Yet pre-emptive strikes can often be justified even if they don't meet the letter of the law. At the start of the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel, fearing that Egypt was aiming to destroy the Jewish state, devastated Egypt's air force before its pilots had scrambled their jets. In 1981 Israel bombed the Osirak nuclear reactor in Iraq, an incident that provoked worldwide disapproval. But given what we now know about Saddam Hussein's regime, only the most nit picking of lawyers - admittedly, a large...
...fact, they hadn't. The Israelis had warned Arafat in advance that they were coming. Their orders were to destroy half the buildings in Arafat's compound (called the Muqata'a), which they did over the course of a six-hour onslaught, but to leave Arafat unscathed, just as they had in a similar raid starting in late March. This new attack was payback for a bombing the day before that killed 17 Israelis. But the bombing had been claimed by Islamic Jihad, a radical Palestinian group that does not answer to Arafat and, moreover, opposes...
...question America needs to ask itself is not why weren't we told? It is why didn't we expect this? The Western world seems determined to try to destroy a perceived enemy, instead of attempting to come to terms with it. The West should ask itself why so much of the world finds unacceptable and seeks to change its materialistic dogmatism. BOB HARVEY Royal Tunbridge Wells, England...
...activity. The studios contend that DECSS could spawn a filmic Napster if users decode DVDs into reproducible - and distributable - format. Losses could be huge: research firm Screen Digest estimates that in 2002 Europeans will spend more than ?5.2 billion on DVDs. Programs like DECSS, says MPA chairman Jack Valenti, "destroy crucial protection and expose industry to the real risk of further massive losses due to piracy." Big business feels the same way about the work of other programmers, from upstarts like Johansen to academics who make a living by probing, tinkering and reverse engineering - which is one reason it lobbied...
...scenic beauty of the West is a wonder to behold and, once seen, never forgotten. Why do we have to destroy what we have to feed our lust for the "better life"? MAUREEN BACALLO Lafayette Hills...