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But the most sustained assault on Orientalism 's premises, and on its prestige, came from the left.
If it's true, it's sexual assault."
The Post story carries a dateline from the town Pobedinskoe, a name derived from the Russian word for "victory"--an ironic contrast to the headline above it, "Assault on Grozny Stalled."
It was far from blind; and there is good reason to credit President Clinton's claim that this was a pre-emptive assault on operational terrorist bases preparing to carry out further attacks on American targets which would have cost, as they did in Nairobi, the lives of hundreds of non-Americans as well."
The LAT leads with an exclusive: that a "rogue operation" of officials within the ATF accelerated the approval of import permits for 150,000 modified assault weapons so that the guns could be sold legally, despite the officials' full awareness of President Clinton's clear intent to keep such guns out of the country.