Word: stationed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Over the airwaves nationwide, National Public Radio has long promoted blatantly pro-Palestinian interests, while providing Israel's supporters little or no opportunity to respond. The majority of speakers quoted in the station's middle east news programs last year were Palestinian or pro-Palestinian outsiders, while a grossly disproportionate number of Israelis quoted were from the country's farthest pro-Palestinian left. Even worse, pro-Palestinian segments received roughly four times the airtime of those on pro-Israeli issues...
Benson, he ran. The officer then gave chase and caught Benson behind the Davis Square MBTA station...
...suicide bomb at a gas station just inside Israel that set in motion Phase 1 of Sharon's plan. A group of young Israelis gathered there each morning to wait for the bus. A young Palestinian, a student at Bir Zeit University near Ramallah, approached the kids with his leather jacket zipped up, despite the heat of the morning. Beneath the jacket was a girdle of explosives. When he detonated, he took two Israeli youngsters with him. It was the third explosion--and two other bombs were defused--within Israel's borders in 24 hours. There had been so many...
...resembled a gangster shoot-out, not a military standoff. An estimated 20 supporters, and a well-armed and reportedly well-lubricated bodyguard fired back at police, injuring two officers and forcing the raid back. Milosevic tried to put a smooth face on the affair by telling a local TV station he was relaxing with "comrades" and sipping coffee. Nothing, it seemed, could shake his expert skills as a liar. Later, seeming more desperate, he vowed to a police commander that he would not be taken alive. Another...
...consistent desire to curb independent media. The more reassuring news is that he is making a hash of it ? so far, at least. Over the past year the full force of the Russian state has been concentrated on Media-Most, the owner of NTV, the one independent TV station with a near-nationwide reach. It has been raided dozens of times, founder Vladimir Gusinsky is in Spain fighting extradition and other executives have fled the country. Judges have consistently ruled against NTV ? or quickly changed their minds if they ruled in favor of the company. Last week should have seen...