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Indeed, in Massachusetts the killings prompted local antiabortion groups to admit a possibility they have long resisted: that "peaceful" protests using such incendiary epithets as murderer and baby killer may create a climate for acts of lethal violence. "The rhetoric doesn't help in any respect," says Philip Lawler, spokesman for the Boston chapter of Operation Rescue. "We're learning that it doesn't help to be shouting things...
...nations that can't afford brand-new weaponry, the Pentagon is literally giving away older but still lethal pieces of its cold war arsenal. Pentagon officials say such gifts help nurture closer ties between U.S. and foreign militaries and save millions of dollars that the Defense Department would otherwise have to pay to scrap arms. Among recent donations: Egypt received 700 M-60 tanks and nearly 1,500 machine guns; Israel was handed 15 F-15 fighters and 16 CH-53 helicopters; Mexico took in 48,178 M-1 carbines. Greece and its nemesis Turkey -- both U.S. allies that already...
...security forces in the Gaza Strip, nearly all of them veterans of the battle against Israel, faced a new foe last week: the enemy within. They answered the challenge from Gaza's Islamic militants in precisely the same way that the Israeli occupiers had done -- bluntly, and with lethal force. By the time the bloody fraternal clashes had simmered down, 15 Palestinians were dead, another 200 were crowding the hospitals and hundreds more were behind bars...
Obsession, when it takes hold, is not a fragrance but a lethal gas. It envelops and consumes us; it is all the air we breathe. It should make for an ideal film subject. But moviemakers rarely know what to do with obsession. They make it trivial, cartoonish. A superfiend itches to blow up the planet -- big hairy deal. An id-monster like Freddy Krueger dices and slices kids as they sleep. Zzzzzz...
ASSISTED SUICIDE: Oregon adoted the only measure in the U.S. to allow doctors to prescribe lethal doses of medication to terminally ill patients...