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...fighters of the Muslim militant organization Hamas had been targeting Israeli positions - before pulling back less than a day later after rare U.S. criticism. Secretary of State Colin Powell termed the offensive an "excessive and disproportionate" retaliation to Palestinian attacks, but also criticized the Palestinians for precipitating violence. In tougher language, the E.U. denounced the bungled land grab - in which orchards were bulldozed, dozens of homes were destroyed and one man was killed - as an "illegal" act that "must not be repeated." At week's end, police clashed with stone-throwing Palestinians in Jerusalem, residents of the Palestinian territories braced...
...Despite Bush?s recent assaults on environmental protection, he insists that Gore would have been no better. The president killed tougher standards for arsenic in drinking water, but the Clinton-Gore team only approved them after the election to "set up" Bush, Nader says. And while Gore might have vetoed Congress? repeal of job safety rules, he claims, the veto would have been overridden by conservatives in Congress. That?s far from certain. What is unequivocal is Nader?s newfound love of electoral politics. In next year?s Congressional elections, he hopes to field a slate of Green candidates...
...this world that warrant jeopardizing lucrative trade deals and access to a market of 1.2 billion people. Flagrant, frequent, unrepentant human rights violations are foremost among those reasons. Initiating periodic United Nations censures against China’s communist government is not enough. The U.S. must take a tougher stance on China and human rights. China’s entrance into the World Trade Organization (WTO) should be conditional on a tangible improvement in the respect of human and minority rights. A U.N. monitoring team must also be allowed into Xinjiang and Tibet to ensure that separatists and protesters...
...storm Kyoto has caused, its original provisions seem modest: a 5% reduction in emissions below 1990 levels for most industrialized nations, with the U.S. - as the world's worst CO2 offender - receiving an incrementally tougher 7% cut. Developing countries that signed the treaty would get a pass for a while...
...retuned the message, the Administration discussed even tougher options. Diplomatic meetings and military exchanges could be canceled. Bush could drop his fall visit to Beijing. He could make dark noises about trade, even end normal trading status. The U.S. could get in the way of China's quest to hold the 2008 Olympics. Then there was the question of whether to sell advanced defensive weapons to Taiwan. "He's got a lot of sticks," a former Clinton Administration official says of Bush, "but the problem is, they...