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...Bush Administration, during those difficult days, to muzzle the man who'd only weeks earlier told the U.S. military that its primary mission was to build the capability to fight and win a land war in Asia. Only last week, he was forced to retract an order to halt all military-to-military ties with the Chinese: the directive was modified to require a case-by-case review of such contacts, and the error blamed on an aide...
...ground when questioning what concrete and verifiable steps Arafat would be required to make to reduce violence. Arafat's political authority in the West Bank and Gaza is clearly not what it was even a year ago, when no one dared publicly question his orders - recently, his calls to halt mortar attacks and to disband local committees coordinating armed activities between Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah and his own Fatah movement have not only been ignored, they've been openly challenged. He may be reluctant to risk further diminishing his power by trying to rein in Palestinian militants in the absence...
Todd E. Plants `01 the chair of the council's Student Affairs Committee, said the council should assume responsibility for the loan to halt Gee and Dasgupta's growing credit card debt...
...last October, the discussion process slowed when the City Council passed the Loose Moratorium, a resident petition to halt development for 18 months in the Riverside neighborhood...
...Harvard officials say they hope the renewed discussions will allow them to present their thoughts on the museum after a halt in discussions for the last several months...