Word: northerners
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Obviously, the Israeli government is reluctant about its presence in Southern Lebanon, which only the will to survive necessitates. Tremendous hazards would befall Israeli civilian communities living in Northern Israel were Israeli troops to retreat from their positions. The doubts created by the Times, the AP, the foreign minister, the Sheikh and others raise the insidious moral question of the legitimacy of Israel's southern Lebanon positions, and hence, are an attack upon Israel's right to self-defense...
...responsibility of ensuring the safety of the Lebanese Christians. Israel has no desire to be in Lebanon. The alternative, however, is far worse. With the Israel army in southern Lebanon, the targets afforded Hizbullah are military ones. Without an Israeli military presence in the security zone, all of northern Israel's civilian population is open to attack...
...also played a hyperallergic lawyer for ten episodes of the television series "Northern Exposure...
...Middle East. After Israel attacked southern Lebanon last April, Secretary of State Warren Christopher was irked to see French Foreign Minister Herve de Charette embark on his own peace shuttle. Then, in September, when Clinton launched missiles south of Baghdad after Iraq violated the Kurd's northern haven, the French pointedly refused to patrol an expanded no-fly zone in southern Iraq and recently pulled out altogether from surveillance flights over the north. Chirac seriously annoyed the U.S. again in October with a high-profile Middle East tour to seek a role in the peace process presided over by Washington...
Such maddening shortages are commonplace in this northern Ohio town. Once a Rust Bucket epicenter, the metropolitan area (pop. 770,000) has become a hub for auto-part exports to Canada and Mexico since the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect in 1994. Norton Manufacturing, a crankcase maker in nearby Fostoria, could hire 30 electricians, machine repairers and tool-and-die workers--if it could find them...