Word: mortared
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...Crimson editorial published May 2, 2001, “Powell Strong, But Not Enough,” mentioned mortar attacks on Israeli “settlements.” The area attacked was in fact a town within Israel’s pre-1967 borders. The Crimson regrets the error...
...crises of this sort. The fighting that has been smouldering over the past months threatened to erupt into more wide spread violence when detachments of the Israeli Army occupied portions of the Gaza strip almost two weeks ago. The aggressive movements by the Israelis came in response to mortar attacks fired against Israeli settlements from the Gaza region...
...Just not much. As the Senate Commerce Committee gets ready this week to consider Internet tax legislation as early as Thursday, legislative negotiators are tiptoeing the line between two very interested interest groups - brick-and-mortar retailers and Internet ones - and they're likely to play it safe and leave things pretty much as they are, at least...
...taxes that single out the Internet. The knottier issue, though, is of sales tax. Say you live in New York and order a book online from Amazon.com (based in Washington state). Technically, you owe New York sales taxes. And states like New York - not to mention the brick-and-mortar stores in them, who complain that Internet outfits are being granted unfairly tax-free status - are looking for permission to start collecting...
...starters, the Israelis want to know the details of just what "concrete steps" Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Administration would be required to take to stop attacks on Israelis. And it?s a fair question: Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah, which have been in the forefront of recent Palestinian mortar and bombing attacks on Israelis are not answerable to Arafat, and they've made it abundantly clear they have no interest in observing any cease-fire agreement. Even more alarming, though, may be the open defiance of Arafat being displayed by his own Fatah movement, whose armed Tanzim militiamen have fought...