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...other U.S. officials acknowledge that the reversal in the NIE on Iran makes the challenge of selling the European piece of the U.S. missile shield, which expands on already existing missile-defense sites in Alaska and California, even tougher. The threat of the "mullahs' nukes" has been the mainstay of the case made by U.S. officials to justify the European missile-defense deployment. "Iran is pursuing the technology that could be used to produce nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles of increasing range that could deliver them," President Bush told a military audience October 23. "Today we have...
...effective at spreading terror than death and destruction. And a missile crammed with high explosives is little more than a flying car bomb - and not nearly as accurate. U.S. officials may struggle to convince skeptics that the threat they pose justify the costs, in all senses, of a missile shield...
...Chinese regime, Burma’s largest trading partner, and no stranger to killing unarmed students itself, was quick to shield the junta from a Security Council resolution. While the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries expressed “revulsion” in a private meeting with the Burmese foreign minister, the refrain for “constructive engagement” followed soon thereafter. Such engagement, since Burma was admitted into ASEAN a decade ago, has overseen one of the worst cases of starvation and disease outside sub-Saharan Africa...
...once wrote that humor was the only way to preserve truth. How accurate is that today? D.W. Younker, ST. CLOUD, MINN., U.S. Humor is a way to survive. It can be a weapon, a shield against fundamentalism and fanaticism, and it can settle intellectual debates. But it can't solve life's problems...
...small fountain crowned with a shield in the blue-and-yellow colors of the club guards the access to the sector where 3,000 plots have been set aside for die-hard Boca fans in a hectare of land lined with blue and yellow flowers. And on blue-and-yellow memorial walls, small stars are inscribed with the names of fans and football players who have found their final resting place here...