Word: miscreants
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...sensitive" to the desires of women, so as to discourage them from committing as foul a violation as date rape. I daresay, though, that the kind of man who would rape a woman is not the sort to attend a "Take Back the Night" rally,. If such a miscreant were in the audience, the presentations are as likely to encourage his flagitious schemes as to dissuade him from them. To a rapist, the women's stories nothing but case studies, illustrating of a woman. If awareness is the object, then "Take Back the Night" perhaps does more harm than good...
Blix has the right to refer the dispute to the U.N. Security Council, which can punish a nuclear miscreant with sanctions that can range from a reprimand to an embargo, and ultimately to war. Three weeks ago, he told Washington he would begin the process this week if the North didn't start behaving. But the West decided to keep negotiating instead. "We're not talking in terms of a deadline," says an IAEA spokesman. Reason: fear of driving Pyongyang into a corner from which it would fight its way out. The North Koreans have threatened to resume plutonium reprocessing...
Then there is the issue of hot pursuit: What happens if the Israelis chase a suspected miscreant into a Palestinian-controlled area? Would the Palestinian police allow the Israelis to continue, take up the chase themselves or sit idly by? As'ad Abdul-Rahman, a member of the P.L.O.'s Central Council, says, "I believe the P.L.O. would go so far as arresting and handing over Palestinians who do violence...
...because the agency does not ask citizens whether they employ household workers. But tax dodgers are sometimes snared when domestics retire and apply for Social Security benefits, only to find that they cannot collect because their employers never paid the taxes. The dismayed workers then often turn in their miscreant bosses. The penalty for cheating can be twice the amount of the overdue taxes plus interest...
...vigilante attacks "could create a most dangerous situation in the future." Last week the army announced that it would increase its estimated 4,000-troop force in the territories by 20% to combat Palestinian violence. Yet the Israeli army continues largely to turn a blind eye to the settlers' miscreant activities...