Word: patriotism
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...famous speech in defense of the power of federal laws, Attorney General John Ashcroft told an audience of Massachusetts law enforcement agents in historic Fanueil Hall yesterday that America is “winning the war on terrorism” thanks to the tools granted by the USA Patriot...
Yesterday’s speech, in which Ashcroft mentioned the words “life and liberty” at least seven times, was essentially the same one he has used in several other speeches he has given as part the tour, which some critics are calling a Patriot Act “road show...
According to Ashcroft, the Patriot Act took tools that have historically been available to law enforcement agents to crack down on drug dealers and made them available for fighting terrorists...
DIED. COLIN MCMILLAN, 67, oil executive nominated in May by President Bush to be Secretary of the Navy; at his 55,000-acre ranch in Otero County, N.M. McMillan, who was awaiting confirmation and was called a "public servant and patriot" by Bush, had recently had a recurrence of cancer...
...particular cases we now mention in all our discussions about political prisoners." But unless Washing- ton and other democratic governments are willing to back up verbal opprobrium with serious diplomatic consequences, China's leaders may never honestly face the difficult truth that Yang came home because he is a patriot...