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...will Palestinians read Tuesday's intervention by Secretary of State Colin Powell that appears to have prompted Israel to withdraw after reoccupying a piece of Gaza in the wake of a mortar attack on Israel...
...wasn't the only one who saw an opportunity and took it. The Chinese military has been feeling sensitive ever since a high-level officer defected to the U.S. last December. Jiang has forced the People's Liberation Army to withdraw from many of its lucrative business enterprises, though he has tried to raise morale by boosting defense spending 18% this year. But many officers still feel that China has grown too chummy with the U.S. They resent the U.S. surveillance flights along the Chinese coastline--something the U.S. would never tolerate on its borders--and they resent the fact...
...chosen issues and others have the right to disagree with his opinion on them. But if Fong had a right to voice his opinion in print, as the First Amendment states and as I believe, why was the organization that allowed his piece to be printed so quick to withdraw its support? I find the statements of March 19 (Opinion, “On ‘The Invasian’”) and March 20 (“To Our Readers”) disappointing because they imply an unwillingness to take responsibility for the end result...
Imagine what will happen to today's great campaign reform when, as is likely, the Supreme Court throws out the restrictions on issue ads by independent groups. Will the great interests--unions and corporations and others with means--which can no longer give to parties, withdraw from the political arena? Of course not. As surely as night follows day, they will end up funding thinly disguised independent groups running their own political ads before an election. There will thus be no diminution of money (or corruption) in politics. There will simply be far more chaos. Instead of the political parties...
...groundless. By week's end they were back, striking at police positions in Tetovo and drawing a furious response from army tanks and artillery. "The fighters will remain in their positions," Fazli Veliu, a spokesman for the rebels, told TIME from his home in Geneva, Switzerland. "They will not withdraw until their demands...