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...sides can sit down and discuss issues of common interest and mutual concern. We have no preconditions. Such talks can take place anytime and anywhere. But just as the U.S. government is considering developing a national missile defense system, Taiwan must also have the necessary weapons to defend itself. We must be prepared for the worst-case scenario. We must be able to defend ourselves from attack and limit the damage. But our strategic defense goals are deterrence and self-protection. We have never considered taking offensive action against the other side...
...McVeigh fiasco comes just as the FBI is having to defend itself against charges that it is capable of brutal indifference to individual rights if it feels justified by some larger goal. It's hard even to say which was the worst of the recent crop of federal offenses, though the McVeigh blunder probably doesn't make the top five. Two weeks ago, officials from the Boston FBI field office were hauled before the House Committee on Government Reform to explain why they had allowed Joseph Salvati to spend 30 years in prison for a murder they knew he didn...
...Fins were trying to defend their perfect ’72 season against the undefeated Bears. In a most exciting and rowdy showdown, Miami handed Chicago its first and only loss of the season. But, I never got to see the game. It was a school night...
...uproar started when the President was asked during an ABC-TV interview whether the U.S. would have an "obligation" to defend Taiwan if it were attacked by China, which considers the island a renegade province. "Yes, we do, and the Chinese must understand that. Yes, I would." Interviewer Charles Gibson pressed: "With the full force of the American military?" Bush shot back: "Whatever it took to help Taiwan defend theirself...
...hours later, in a CNN interview, Bush sought to backtrack, claiming that what he was committed to was to "help Taiwan defend herself" and that all he was doing was voicing support for America's traditional one-China policy and the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act--which says only that an attack on Taiwan would be of "grave concern" to the U.S. As Bush's words ricocheted around town, Secretary of State Colin Powell assured the worried Biden in a phone call that there had been no shift, and a State spokesman insisted, "Our policy hasn't changed today; it didn...