Word: soiling
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...also bitterly opposes French President Jacques Chirac's scheduled meeting next month with Algerian President Zamine Zeroual at the U.N. Paris bureau chief Thomas Sanction says the GIA "has vowed to continue waging 'holy war' on French soil until the French cut off their economic support of the Algiers government. Earlier this week, the GIA reportedly said it would target French journalists, just as it has targeted Algerian newsmen and intellectuals back home." Sancton reports that the GIA has also said that it will not stop the bombing campaign until French President Jacques Chirac personally converts to Islam...
That bit of legal deconstruction may undermine the concept of justice, but it proved prophetic in the Woburn case. It was not difficult to establish that the carcinogenic solvent trichloroethylene had contaminated soil at the defendants' plants. But had the TCE discovered in the town drinking water come from those sources? If so, could it have caused the blood cancers and other disorders...
Your cover story "The Rape of Siberia" is a disappointment. You seem to have compassion for the soil but not for the lives of the hundreds of thousands of Estonians, Latvians, Ukrainians and members of other nations who perished in Siberia during Soviet rule. AINA O. NUCHO Baltimore, Maryland...
...would make thousands of decisions, ranging from helping to pick a name for the defensive part of the operation (Peninsula Shield and Crescent Shield were rejected in favor of Desert Shield) to getting around Riyadh's insistence that religious services for Jewish soldiers could not be held on Saudi soil (choppers picked up Jewish soldiers and brought them to ships stationed in the gulf to worship...
Continued testing on our own part, we can assume, will not cause a similar uproar; it will take place on our own soil, and even then only on a scale with-in the limits called for in the upcoming global test ban treaty. Nevertheless, the hypocrisy of such an action plainly goes against the spirit of international disarmament and threatens to undermine global confidence in our resolve. These risks are all the more heightened in light of Russia's exemplary disarmament performance. To date, Russia has been disarming at the rate of 2,000 to 3,000 missiles per year...