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...Does an agreement of this type not require the U.S. to play referee? Calling out the American fire brigade to resolve some crisis was Arafat's favorite tactic in the last years of the Clinton administration, and he seemed to be blossoming in Powell's presence Thursday. How long before Powell gets dragged back to the region to put out some new brushfire...
...They concluded that the benefits of letting people sue the employer were much smaller than the potential cost," sponsor Phil Gramm said after the vote. The Senate also defeated (61-39) a move by Iowa's Charles Grassley to send the Democrats' bill back to committee (a classic stall tactic...
...Guerrilla warfare is not a tactic of civil-rights movements; it is a tactic used by liberation movements whose objective is to free a particular piece of territory from the control of an existing authority, and (replace it with a new ruling authority). There is plenty of significance in the rebels calling themselves the National Liberation Army, not least because the acronym, in Albanian, is UCK - the same as the KLA. NATO's firm opposition to any further redrawing of Balkan borders prompted the NLA to hurriedly proclaim itself a civil rights movement, but its strategy and tactics - even...
...radical Islamists who have no interest in the cease fire: A growing faction of Arafat's own Fatah organization see no value in ending their intifada in order to send Arafat back to negotiate with the Israelis and Americans. Instead, they're more inclined to believe that Hezbollah's tactic of protracted guerrilla warfare will ultimately drive Israel out of the West Bank and Gaza...
...just what has the FAA proposed to make LaGuardia livable again? Its first suggestion is a classic old-style agency tactic: Kick the final decision down the field by extending the current 'lottery' system of flights. The lottery was imposed last winter after Congress foolishly opened the floodgates by changing legislation to allow pretty much anyone to fly into the most congested airspace in the world. "We told members of Congress that the airlines would throw every airplane they had at LaGuardia and the flying world would come to a stop if they passed that bill. But they...