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...stop those planning to use lethal force against it. I would like to ask those critical of Israel to think how they would feel upon having their son or daughter killed by a suicide bomber, all while more suicide bombers are trained with impunity and encouragement on Palestinian soil. Should Israel respond with violence? Israel has no choice...
YUGOSLAVIA Uranium Traces U.N. scientists said they had found areas in Serbia and Montenegro where the soil and air is still contaminated by depleted uranium, three years after nato bombing in the region. The U.N. Environment Program said there was a risk of groundwater contamination from five sites in the Presevo Valley and at Cape Arza...
...campaign contributions from a U.S. manufacturer of ethanol. Davis denies the charge. State officials cite studies showing that MTBE causes cancer in lab animals and symptoms such as headache and nausea in humans. The federal EPA is also considering a ban. Unlike other gasoline components that stick to the soil when they leak, MTBE is unusually solvent, escaping from even reinforced tanks and moving rapidly into nearby water wells. Water experts say ethanol, a corn derivative, would be less harmful, but California is lobbying Congress to let gasoline be sold in the state without either MTBE or ethanol...
Ukraine should be one of the powerhouses of Europe: bigger than France and Switzerland combined, rich soil, a well-educated population of 50 million, once part of the industrial heartland of the Soviet Union. Instead, it is an embarrassment, marginalized as smaller neighbors like Poland and Hungary prepare to join the European Union - and most other European leaders try not to think about it. Pretty much the only time Ukraine makes the front pages, in fact, is when another scandal blows up. Like the one involving former Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko, now in detention in the U.S. but pleading...
Granted, Clinton did take some steps to combat terrorism on U.S. soil by signing the Omnibus Counterterrorism Act in 1995, which made an international terrorist act committed in America a federal crime. The bill, however, was grossly inadequate because it did little to address terrorist threats on foreign soil. Making terrorism a federal crime will hardly dissuade fanatics from executing their plans abroad...