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He added that the reason Israel was so calm in advance of the attack was that it had concluded there were no launchers or ballistic missiles to threaten it in western Iraq, and that even if Saddam decided to launch the few "Hussein" missiles and improved Scuds he still had, he would need more than 24 hours to transfer them from their hiding places to an area within range of Israel.
The New York Times runs this inside, leading instead with the trend in many states to aggressively enforce truancy laws that threaten parents with fines and jail time.
Researchers say that surrendering the data would violate the confidentiality participants were promised and threaten future research.
that someone who breaks the law in not upholding and not telling the truth under oath and someone who obstructs justice does, in fact, threaten the republic" (Sen.
It's becoming clear from the coverage that the U.S. negotiating strategy--to get the Albanians on board and then threaten the Serbs with airstrikes--has come a cropper because U.S. and NATO diplomats have been, in the NYT 's words, "flabbergasted" by the Albanians, especially by the Albanian guerrillas in the delegation.