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...moral dilemma only deepened as the determined government of Shamir ordered yet another military crackdown. "We will increase the punishment so there is a higher price to pay for throwing stones," explained army Chief of Staff Dan Shomron. A new kind of ammunition has been introduced: a round, rubber-clad metal ball advertised as nonlethal but responsible for nearly half a dozen deaths so far this month. Soldiers are permitted to fire supposedly less lethal plastic bullets more readily, including at the backs of fleeing protesters. Stone throwers can be jailed for five years, their parents fined...
Israel's political leaders cannot seem to decide how much force is appropriate or acceptable in the face of international criticism. During the past year soldiers have been instructed to beat rioters; drop gravel on them from helicopters; fire tear gas, rubber bullets, plastic bullets. None of it has ended the uprising. And even some Likud members doubt the new measures will do better. "I don't think there is a lot of logic or common sense in shooting a boy when he's already finished throwing his stone and is running away," said Minister Without Portfolio Ehud Olmert...
...public understandably became terrified and overreacted. Children with AIDS from Queens to Kokomo were barred from attending school. Police officers donned rubber gloves when apprehending drug abusers thought to be infected with the AIDS virus. Churchgoers declined the Communion wine they had once quaffed from their common cups. Everything from Florida's mosquitoes to food touched by gay waiters was suspected of carrying the virus...
...Ilyushin Il-62 and winging off to foreign parts is that he has serious, apparently growing troubles at home. In recent weeks there have been bloody riots in the Caucasus and protests along the Baltic. At a special session of the Supreme Soviet, a few deputies to the traditionally rubber-stamp parliament took glasnost and democratization seriously enough to vote against some of Gorbachev's reforms. These difficulties give Gorbachev two reasons to keep hitting the diplomatic high road: he must reduce international tensions if he / is to devote more resources to internal restructuring, and he needs a demonstrably successful...
...tally -- 1,344 ayes, five nays and 27 abstentions -- might have added up to a lopsided victory elsewhere, but the flicker of opposition to a key Kremlin program was a historic event in the Soviet parliament, long considered no more than a rubber stamp. Had the leadership not sought a compromise last week between the central government and a handful of republics over proposed electoral changes, the count of naysayers might have been even higher...