Word: statement
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...ideology that serves as a grim elixir of anti-Semitism and racism. While Butler is the center of the organization, Hoskins has provided a skein of quasi-scholarly justifications for the movement, covering history, economics and mythology. Hoskins, a former securities dealer living in Virginia, insisted in a statement last week that he does not advocate violence. Yet his book War Cycles/Peace Cycles, a copy of which was found in the van Furrow drove to Los Angeles last week, discusses the necessity of assassinating national leaders...
...While President Clinton played the standard "While these results give us reason to be optimistic, we cannot let up on our efforts" statement, HHS Secretary Donna Shalala was willing to go further and say the government had really "turned a corner" in combating illegal drug usage. And, proclaimed White House drug czar Barry McCaffrey, "the fact that the numbers are best for the youngest age group [12-17] is a harbinger that use will continue to fall as this group grows older." By underplaying the numbers, Clinton is probably taking the right approach. "What you don't know is whether...
...asked, "Did you see this?" He said nothing else, just stared in a way the aide found threatening. More chilling, say school officials, are Lance's drawings of cities that he says he wants to destroy. Hank Vest, the Gulf Shores Middle School principal, says, "He made the statement that I did not know what all he was capable of doing...
...tortured before the interview as a warning, and afterward as a punishment, until he nearly lost his mind. His blinking the word torture was not to meant to explain why he had given a prepared propaganda statement, as he had not. Rather, it was to cover the possibility that the communists would dub in words to replace his own defiant words and explain why he had agreed to be interviewed. My father received the highest Navy award, the Navy Cross, for his heroic words of defiance, not for his clever blinking. JAMES S. DENTON, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Freedom House Washington...
...after trudging an uphill campaign trail practically nonstop for six years, the former Tennessee governor bowed his head Monday and dropped out of the GOP 2000 presidential campaign. "My heart wants to keep going, but there is no realistic way to do it," Alexander said in a prepared statement to supporters gathered at the state capitol in Nashville. During the 1996 primaries, Bill Clinton had called Alexander the opponent he most feared. Four years later, after pouring the last of his meager campaign funds into an all-out run at the Iowa straw poll - and coming in a dismal sixth...