Word: attacking
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...gets worse. "Intelligence professionals reviewing this case would have to consider whether Ressam may have been a decoy designed to draw attention away from someone else," says Dowell. "In Vietnam, the Viet Cong would often do all the preparations for an attack, knowing U.S. intelligence would pick it up and protect against it, but then not actually attack. If you have a big organization, you want to send out a lot of false signals to stretch your enemy's resources and keep him guessing about when you're really planning to strike...
...million-person New Year's party in Seattle, and almost makes it into the U.S. if not for the hunch of a border guard. It makes for one terrifying story to the U.S., which has many terrorist enemies around the world but has stayed generally free of attack on its own soil, and it exposes a disturbing truth - America is only as secure as its borders. One problem from America's standpoint is that Canadians don't seem to care much. "There's a sense of shock that this could happen under our watch," says TIME Montreal contributor Linda Gyulai...
...homophobic graffiti scrawled on Muhammad's door last week, the fourth such personally directed attack he has faced this semester and the catalyst in his decision to resign, was the first such incident to occur since the pledge was signed. Muhammad, the advisor to the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters' Alliance (BGLTSA), has been the focus of the recent homophobic vandalism in Mather. But such incidents have also plagued two other Houses this semester...
...have to have discipline to do this," Bradley told TIME in an interview before the Gore-itis imbroglio. "You don't have to have discipline to just attack and misrepresent. That's the self-indulgent way politics has been practiced in the recent decade." Gore, he said, "is running '92 and '96 again. It's not going to work... Reasonable people understand what's going on." But to paraphrase Adlai Stevenson, reasonable people won't be enough; Bradley needs a majority...
...attack on the gunmakers, is patterned closely on the tobacco campaign and even involves some of the same lawyers. But the federal role is different this time. When the government finally sued the tobacco companies last September, it was more than a year after the states had concluded a far-reaching settlement with the industry. This time the feds are jumping in when they can make a difference, even after a year when Congress did nothing to further gun control. Some manufacturers, like Glock, said last week they would consider meeting with the Clinton Administration, while others--notably Sturm, Ruger...