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Early in the war, Andris' father disappeared to the Russian front with a Jewish forced-labor battalion. When he returned, half starved, at the end of the war, he described how Hungarian guards, on a bitterly cold Russian night, forced the Jewish battalion to strip naked and climb trees, "and the guards sprayed them with water and watched and laughed as one after another fell out of the trees frozen to death...
...many ways, recently passed legislation actually has begun to strip away the right to abortion. With the lack of global funding for organizations and clinics that provide abortion resources, poor women were the first to have their right to end a pregnancy severely restricted. Through laws that ban abortion in most military facilities, military and federally employed women (and wives and daughters of men in the military or federal work force) have limited access if any to abortion. Young women cannot receive help from anyone without parental consent through the passage of the Child Custody Protection Act. This act makes...
...event the worst doesn't happen--a not unlikely event, given the logistics and the union's legal challenge. "We sold eight season tickets yesterday," said spokesman Sean Harlin. The Twins were also getting help in Washington, where Minnesota Senators Paul Wellstone and Mark Dayton lobbied the Administration to strip baseball of its antitrust exemption. Given that the current President co-owned the Texas Rangers, this is what's known as a grandstand play...
Last Friday, the class watched “Gaza Strip,” a documentary about elementary-school boys who wish to die as martyrs for Palestine. In disturbing detail, the film portrayed young children being massacred by exploding bombs...
Meanwhile, there are still serious questions about the crash. The preliminary conclusion by French investigators is well known: during takeoff, a 16-in. metal strip on the runway slashed one of the Concorde's tires, sending a 10-lb. piece of rubber into the underside of the wing and causing a fuel tank to rupture. Something yet undetermined ignited a fire that engulfed the No. 2 engine. There was also a problem with the No. 1 engine: it could not provide thrust. Given those problems, the pilots lost control of the plane after only one minute...