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...which the network had no clips.) Fox--No. 1 in 18 to 34s!--has the most unusual lineup, including 24, a thriller whose events unfold in one day, in real-time episodes, over the season; Pasadena, a spooky-looking soap. I leave the party early, walking past the fighter jets on deck and thinking, If you set off a bomb on this ship...But then these are the upfronts. Plenty of bombs got launched this week. They just won't detonate until fall...
...ISRAEL Fighter Jets Strike Israel unleashed F-16 fighter planes on West Bank targets for the first time since 1967. They were responding to a deadly attack only hours beforehand. A suicide bomber belonging to the militant Hamas group killed himself and six other people and injured more than 100 others when he detonated explosives outside a shopping mall in the coastal town of Netanya. The Palestinian Authority condemned the bombing and called on the Israeli government to show restraint, but the Israeli cabinet was already meeting to decide its furious response. The airstrikes and artillery bombardment killed at least...
...ZEALAND Slow of Force New Zealand has decided to adopt an unusual approach to its defense forces. Prime Minister Helen Clark announced that, though spending on the military would rise by $820 million over the next 10 years, the air force will be stripped of its fighter jets and the navy will lose half its large warships. "New Zealand is a small country," Clark said, "and it cannot afford to do a wide range of capabilities well." The move has provoked protests from opposition groups and anxieties among the country's allies...
...been seen as out of proportion, leaving fewer places to go after this and bringing international criticism without any real positive gain. Essentially, if Israel had done the same thing with helicopter gun-ships, it might have passed unnoticed by the international media. But using fighter planes has drawn fierce criticism. Until now they've been almost routinely assassinating people and going into the Palestinian-controlled Area A and it wasn't getting that much attention - editors had lost interest in stories about it because it had become commonplace - but this brought renewed criticism...
...Many in the West may be horrified by the apparent callousness of South Africa's calculations - and, indeed, many of its own citizens are questioning why the government plans to spend $5 billion on submarines, helicopters and fighter planes when the primary threat to the nation's security is AIDS. But South Africa continues to earn high praise from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Western financial community for its fiscal discipline. It has earned that positive image among investors in part through slashing its budget deficit by more than two thirds over the past six years - and pouring...