Word: pact
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...Hamas leader accused by Israel of helping to plan suicide attacks. Hamas promised revenge, with one leader saying that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had "opened the door to hell." THE PHILIPPINES Voting With Their Kalishnikovs Muslim guerillas from the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLA) broke a 1996 peace pact by attacking an army base on the island of Jolo. Government officials accused former MNLF leader Nur Misuari, governor of the Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao in which Jolo is located, of inciting the violence to stop this week's election for his successor. The government deployed thousands of troops...
...uses to commute to work each day. He also owns an island off the coast of Connecticut. He calls it North Dumpling, and he considers it a sovereign state. It has a flag, a navy, a currency (one bill has the value of pi) and a mutual nonaggression pact with the U.S., signed by Kamen and the first President Bush (as a joke, we think...
...dozens of countries, including the U.S. George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt, to cite just three wartime American leaders, bent the peacetime structure of rights to avert national disaster. President Bush is right to follow their example. As Justice Robert Jackson said, the Constitution is not a suicide pact...
...intelligence officials still fear that sharing the information could reveal too much about U.S. intelligence-gathering capabilities. Meanwhile, the Izhora factory in St. Petersburg, Russia, just completed a 317-ton reactor component bound for Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant, the first one to be delivered under a 1995 pact worth $800 million...
...August, the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia with 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops, ending the Prague Spring...