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Although planning is in its earliest stages, a decision on how to proceed is expected soon. The administration “hopes to have a firmer plan for the science initiatives by the end of the next academic year,” Tiedemann said...
...solution to Israel's security crisis as long as the Palestinians remain subject to Israeli occupation. But the provisional statehood idea has received a lukewarm response on both sides of the divide. Sharon says the time isn't right; the Palestinians and many of their Arab supporters want a firmer commitment on both timelines and a return to the 1967 borders. And President Bush's advisers are left searching for a viable Mideast policy amidst the daily carnage that once again threatens to erupt into a regional crisis...
Intelligence about Iraq's capabilities on these fronts is firmer and no less frightening. "We destroyed a lot of chemical weapons," says Duelfer of the U.N. inspection team. "They had a facility that was going night and day, like some weird James Bond movie." Inspectors discovered and disposed of 38,500 chemical munitions (such as shells, warheads, bombs), 690 tons of chemical weapons agents, 3,000 tons of precursor chemicals and 426 pieces of chemical production equipment. But Iraq never accounted for all the 100,000 chemical weapons it produced for use in the Iran-Iraq war, and there...
...against the terrorists [AFGHANISTAN, Oct. 22]. Those people fail to see that there is more at stake than catching a handful of psychopaths calling themselves warriors of God. What's at risk is the survival of the West. If we don't want to perish, we must get a firmer grip on our civilization. That includes a relentless fight against all those who threaten it and its values. ALEXANDER RAUH Pegnitz, Germany...
...accusing the school of being a malicious party. Groton can only be so on top of things without being a prison, but they take very seriously the idea of in loco parentis. Had they known what was the extent of what was going on, they would have taken firmer action...