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...sounding especially jingoistic or bellicose. John Barry, an insurance underwriter in Troy, Mich., expressed a characteristic note: "Bush has given ample time for Iraq to leave Kuwait. I think we've got to act according to our word. We can't say we're going to militarily evict Iraq from Kuwait and then not do it. We've spent too much time and money to just whistle in the breeze and not do anything...
Starting this spring, members of the Small Property Owners Coalition (SPOC) will begin defending landlords who are attempting either to evict tenants or to remove their buildings from the city's rent control system, said Joel C. Delman, the third-year law student who heads the group...
...might begin sometime after Jan. 15, the date on which the U.N. has authorized the alliance to use "all necessary means" to evict Saddam's soldiers from Kuwait, with selective air raids on military targets in Iraq. But those supposedly "surgical strikes," all sources agree, could quickly escalate to a massive aerial bombing campaign carried out by 700 American attack planes flying out of ground bases in Saudi Arabia and Turkey, plus 200 more taking off from the six aircraft carriers the U.S. will have stationed in the region...
Last week the Israeli Supreme Court delayed by one week the government decision to evict the Jewish group, pending further deliberation by the court. The decision was likely to keep a sensitive issue simmering, since the Old City is part of territory seized by Israel during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and is just one example of a surge in Jewish settlement beyond Israel's 1967 borders...
...hundreds of sidewalks adjacent to cracked buildings that might yet collapse. The World Series resumed Friday night at Candlestick Park, and even the tourist business showed signs of revival. To prepare for a meeting of 5,000 plastic surgeons, the Moscone Convention Center was forced last week to evict 1,000 homeless people, who were shifted to Army barracks in the Presidio and to the helicopter carrier U.S.S. Pelileu, which served as a floating dormitory. By apt coincidence, the Society for Traumatic Stress Studies held its convention, as scheduled, in San Francisco last week...