Word: harassments
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...empire from financing his terror network. At future U.N. conferences and economic summits, Clinton will lobby foreign leaders to seize bin Laden assets found in their countries. Friendly foreign-intelligence services, acting on CIA tips, have begun rounding up bin Laden operatives in different parts of the world to harass his network. The agency has succeeded in breaking up a bin Laden terror cell operating in Albania. The Pentagon is readying more strikes on bin Laden operatives before they attack. "We're going to take you down before you take your gun out," a planning officer on the Pentagon...
...decision to ignore Clinton's pleas and detonate underground nuclear tests in response to India's--but foreign leaders are sensitive to shifts in American presidential power. Despite Clinton's warnings, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thumbs his nose at the peace process and Saddam Hussein continues to harass U.N. arms inspectors in Iraq. And the President's China visit--which seemed so triumphant, what with his televised human-rights debate in Beijing and lavish praise for President Jiang Zemin--was immediately followed by a Chinese crackdown on 20 dissidents and an embarrassed admission from Secretary of State Madeleine Albright...
...life-style and risked jail to get away from him. Also the claim that women in the underground take children "from fathers who don't get two minutes in their own defense" runs counter to anything our office has seen. Rather, domestic-violence perpetrators use the legal system to harass their partners. Our organization cannot condone parental kidnapping, but we can understand the forces that may drive battered women to believe it is their only option. PAMELA COUKOS, Public Policy Director National Coalition Against Domestic Violence Washington...
Ellen would file protection orders again in 1994 and 1996, and file multiple claims that Bipin violated those orders with harassing phone calls and faxes. In one letter to the police she said that Bipin, while returning the children to her house, began "screaming many obscenities" and said, "You're a prostitute and a slut...you're going to get nothing from me." Ellen ended that letter, "My children and I are afraid of him." But while he signed agreements not to harass her, there was never an admission of guilt on his part or any criminal finding against...
Such a weak punishment following a protracted investigation in which the six students continued to harass their classmates is completely unacceptable. Not only does the procedure show a lack of respect for student and Faculty complaints of sexual harassment--a lapse that could have repercussions from federal employment regulators; the light punishment also serves to condone the behavior. For a school with a student body that is 70 percent male and thus desperate to increase the number of female applicants, this decision is as unwise as it is unjust...