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When the U.S. gave Patriot missile batteries to Israel to combat the Iraqi Scuds raining down on civilians during the gulf war, Washington forbade Jerusalem to export the technology. Now a U.S. intelligence report suggests that Israel may have supplied China with secrets of the Patriot. Israeli officials deny the charge, but the controversy has roiled relations with the U.S., already strained by American demands that the Shamir government stop building settlements in the occupied territories exchange for $10 billion in loan guarantees. The Wall Street Journal fueled the controversy by reporting that Israel is also suspected of having exported...
...prime suspects, but they are not Quarryville's only guilty citizens. We also encounter the pastors of the town's three churches, who combat for the soul of Quarryville and of Ziza Todd. Don't forget Bob Bramer, the perpetual loser in the mayoral elections and Professor van Runk, the broke Washington Irving scholar who owns a key piece of real estate. Quarryville is too small and too incestuous for everyone not to get involved...
...Bush's performance: Duke says the president "sold out the Republican Party" in compromising with Democrats to produce a civil rights bill to combat discrimination against women and minorities in the workplace...
...competing in the Olympics, for Teruel, is a chance to combat the apathy he sees all around him and to make his small voice heard above the fray. "You can't have a fair society," he says, "but what else have you got to go for? The people who really could do something don't feel like they can. And the people who are really dangerous do everything...
...anti-Semitism in our society, I believe it is crucial to permit the Jeffries and David Dukes of this world to openly express their views--and in so doing, confront ourselves with the painful reality of the bigotry present among us and the need for continuous work to combat...