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Hedges says that KLA shakedowns of merchants are the order of the day, and he describes the confiscation of one furniture merchant's car and the theft of $50,000 worth of his inventory.
In the aftermath of the war, Poland was Sovietized, with the installation of a Soviet-friendly communist regime, the nationalization of businesses, confiscation of church property, and forced exile of political and religious leaders.
Democrats explained the loss by asserting that 1) the NRA distorted the stricter measure, claiming it would lead to confiscation and a national gun registry; and 2) House Republicans are aware of their constituents' support for gun control but are unwilling to defy the NRA on the cusp of an election year.
And although these papers and the LAT all communicate the same basic facts about yesterday's events--that Arafat responded to Albright's demands by promising full cooperation in the fight against anti-Israeli terrorism and that Netanyahu was very cool toward her entreaties to him to cease land confiscations, home demolitions, settlement building, confiscation of IDs and the embargoing of tax revenues belonging to the Palestinian authority--their headlines differ in what they emphasize.
The "dire consequences" spoken of earlier amount to the following: a brusquely worded note, a rude stare from a stranger, and the apparent confiscation of Harford's carnival mask, which results in a $25 replacement fee.