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...Syrian MiGs have occasionally challenged these overflights, to their detriment: 13 MiGs have been lost in dogfights to Israeli jets over the past 18 months. As if to underscore that superiority, Israel last week also intensified its aerial attacks against Palestinian positions all across southern Lebanon. In one particularly lethal raid, Israeli jets flew repeated bombing runs over the Lebanese ports of Tyre and Sidon, killing at least 25 civilians...
...government fails to provide such services, many elderly will be forced into expensive and dehumanizing institutions. This push towards institutions will lead to tragic consequences worse that unnecessary costs. Constrained by a lack of staff, some institutions administer nearly lethal levels of tranquilizers: these drugs are often prescribed for the new malady of "institutional anxiety." In other institutions, patients face little physical danger, but they meet with almost equally insidious bureaucratic indignities. For example, one nursing home responded to complaints about its policy of separating husband and wife by setting aside one suite where a couple could enjoy undisturbed privacy...
...defy those people who oppose handgun control to point to any other weapon that can inflict such lethal damage from a distance and, at the same time, can be so easily concealed. To suggest that a knife or a club could accomplish what a handgun can is nonsense...
Congressional enemies of the sale voice varied arguments. They fear that supplying AWACS to Saudi Arabia would accelerate a potentially lethal arms race in the Middle East. They also worry that the planes, with their highly sophisticated, secret equipment, might fall into the wrong hands. Says New York Democrat Joseph Addabbo: "There is no one who can guarantee what type [Saudi] government, pro-U.S., anti-U.S. or violently opposed to Israel, will be in control of these weapons one year or five years from...
After presenting a petition signed by 1300 Cambridge residents. Clifford Truesdell told the council the referendum was necessary because the El Salvador conflict was quickly turning into another Vietnam. "Over the past year we've watched as non-lethal supplies have grown into bombs and helicopters and then into military advisers," Truesdell said. "Oh God, are we going to live through this again?" he added...