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...with it, one cannot accept the hateful and malicious attacks on an entire region of the country. Too often Southerners are painted as ignorant, backward "goons" who must be guided and taught by their sophisticated, progressive Northern compatriots. Left to itself, the South would revert to a mob of tobaccy-chewin', black-lynchin', shotgun-carrying' rednecks. This patronizing attitude does nothing but further convince Southerners that we actually might be better off alone...
...hours earlier, another Palestinian suicide bomber had blown himself up, this time in downtown Tel Aviv amid a crowd of schoolchildren, killing 13 people. After the fourth such atrocity in little more than a week, even the most liberal leaders within the Israeli government sought vengeance. With a mob outside screaming for blood, ministers advocated sending Israeli troops to reoccupy the Gaza Strip. Others prescribed mass deportations of Palestinians. One even urged razing the villages from which the bombers came...
...Taiwan -- specifically the stock markets and foreign exchange -- and make people blame President Lee Teng-hui," FlorCruz says. "China is serving a warning to Taiwan that it better change its direction or otherwise it will have no peace of mind." The tests are scheduled to end on Friday.Top Detroit Mob Leaders Arrested
...organized crime today, Federal agents arrested the boss and leaders of the Detroit Mafia. Seventeen people were indicted on 25 different charges alleging 30 years of murder plots, extortion and racketeering. The indictments came after a long government effort to "drive a stake through the heart" of the mob, following similar arrests in Boston, New Orleans, Chicago, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Newark, N.J. and New York City. The alleged Mafia boss, Jack Tocco, was arrested this morning in Boca Raton, Fla. along with his brother Anthony and reputed second in command, Anthony Zerilli. "Here in Detroit, we believe we've driven...
Three days after returning to Iraq, a senior State Department source reports that Hussein Kamel and his brother have been killed by a mob of "hotheads" in Baghdad. The killings follow shortly after news that Saddam Hussein's daughters had divorced the husbands they had defected to Jordan with six months ago. Iraq's official news agency announced the divorces earlier today and cited "betrayal of the homeland" as the wives' main reason. The two men, Lt. General Hussein Kamel al-Majid and his brother Col. Saddam Kamel, had returned to Iraq with assurances of a pardon being granted...