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...strike at rebel targets above the town of Tetovo, site of the Balkans' newest insurgency. While it succeeded in panicking Albanian civilians, it left the rebels themselves more or less unfazed. Subsequent government reports that the insurgents were laying down their weapons and fleeing toward the Kosovo border proved groundless. By week's end they were back, striking at police positions in Tetovo and drawing a furious response from army tanks and artillery. "The fighters will remain in their positions," Fazli Veliu, a spokesman for the rebels, told TIME from his home in Geneva, Switzerland. "They will not withdraw until...
...investigative reporter Peter Lance. Stillman, seeking unspecified damages, says a letter from Been to Burnett exists to support her claim. Less persuasive is that during her time on the island, Stillman was known as "the annoying one." CBS, also a defendant in the suit, called the action "frivolous and groundless." Reprising his role as America's crazy old coot, Boesch said of Stillman, "I can't figure...
...short, the bid by The Crimson to absolve today's white American citizenry of obligation for reparations for the human rights violations under American slavery and racism is groundless...
...Grozny to the new threat. If the rebels' purpose was to shake Russian confidence, they succeeded. "It's not clear where they came from," said Major General Sergei Makarov, commander on the eastern front. "They just popped up among the civilians." General Victor Kazantsev blamed his troops' "tenderheartedness" and "groundless trust" in Chechen civilians. The response from Moscow made it clear that the top brass had been stung. Defense Minister Sergeyev sniffed that the attacks were "perfidious...
Conservatives certainly do not object, as the Crimson staff asserts, to "homosexuals sharing their identity with others." Nor, as Tan and Carbellano outrageously claim, do we "question the validity of [gays'] right to exist." These sorts of groundless attacks echo the slanders of protesters at the Coming Out Dinner, whose posters denounced Ronald Reagan as a "genocidal bigot." There is no place for such puerile theatrics at Harvard...