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...think the main thrust would turn Cambridgeinto an upper-income enclave," he said. "Withoutthe broad protection in the city, they [lowerincome tenants] will likely be replaced by morewell-to-do house-holds...
POWELL IS A POSITIVE ROLE MODEL FOR all of us, black and white. That is why I hope he resists all efforts to thrust him into the race for the White House. The election process has become dirty and boring, an affront to the intelligence of the American people. No matter how good a person Powell is, once he enters the political arena there are those people, politicians and journalists, who will go to extremes to destroy everything he stands for. What they cannot dig up, they will make up, and in the process we will lose a wonderful human...
...NASA engineers are also portrayed in this can-do light. At one point in the movie, as Odyssey begins of fill with carbon dioxide, a group of engineers is gathered together, and a heap of what appear to be spare parts is thrust before them...
Even so, is the lightly armed Bosnian army really launching a thrust straight into the ring of armor the Serbs have clamped on the city? The Serbs, 12,000 strong, hold all the high ground and have hundreds of heavy artillery pieces and mortars zeroed in on approach routes. An uphill battle against the Serbs would not only produce huge Bosnian casualties but would also open the entire capital to retaliatory shelling from Serb positions. The bloodshed would be sickening, and there is no certainty the Bosnians could succeed no matter how professional their forces have become or how high...
...Muslim-dominated Bosnian army launched its largest offensive in the war against secessionist Serbs, combining forces with Bosnian Croats to attack Serb troops who have besieged Sarajevo for the past 38 months. The combined Bosnian-Croat thrust advanced on three fronts; in response, the Serbs pounded the city with artillery. The fighting did not stop the wedding of Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic's daughter Sonja from taking place in nearby Pale on Saturday...