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Article 5. The Japan Times South China Sea: making sense of nonsense Mark Valencia June 29 — After a series of aggressive incidents involving Chinese patrol boats and subsequent soothing official statements, many analysts are trying to figure out what is really going on. Mor...

…blicans. But, as it turned out, I was off by two! The Republicans actually picked up nine seats—West Virginia, Montana, South Dakota, Arkansas, Alaska, Louisiana, Iowa, North Carolina and Colorado—and lost none. 100% 90% 80% 70% Figure 4 The Gallup “Are You Satisfied?” Survey (Fe...

… 1285-90 (1995) (describing the effects of anti-cocaine laws on black communities). Underenforcement of criminal law by southern states through the 1960s, when civil rights activists were the victims, are another example. DAVID SCHOEN 103 Minn. L. Rev. 844, *861 Page 10 of 42 Whe...

…vascript:void(0) • javascript:void(0) • Email • javascript:void(0) • Unable to get work as a house manager elsewhere in South Florida, he says, Rodriguez later tried to sell this "golden nugget"—his term—for $50,000, to be used in the victims' civil suits. Unfortunately, he made...

…ng disliked by Raful almost as much as I was. Our main reserve division had been ordered to take control over the hills south of the Tovlano Triangle. One of its brigades, led by a former Sayeret Matkal soldier named Nachman Rifkind, was sent to take up a position immediately sou...

… nothing going on to nothing left to sell." Porter is giving me a tour of the so-called Billionaire's Row, a stretch of South Ocean Boulevard on the island of Palm Beach that is bordered by some of the highest hedges I've ever seen. Through gaps in the greenery appear stone fount...

4.2.12 WC: 191694 who had performed in South Africa. To me, this blacklisting constituted reverse McCarthyism, even if it is in the interest of a just cause. I wrote an article in 1985 exposing and condemning this new liberal McCarthyism. It included the following: This time,...

…cotland poised to attack Norway. In truth, they had only 150,000 men planning an assault on the Normandy Beaches in the South. Just before the landings messages were decoded showing Hitler had fallen for the Allied subterfuge. Even as the Normandy landings began, Hitler still tho...

…a huge change in our country. We now have an ARMY command, NORTHCOM, to take charge of America - North America, the way SOUTHCOM is in charge of South America and CENTCOM is in charge of Central Asia. This used to be illegal... We had the posse comitatus acts which said, yes, if...

…e morning of May 24, 1992, a 15-year-old Israeli schoolgirl named Helena Rapp was on her way to catch the bus to school south of Tel Aviv, when another Gazan stabbed her to death. To the extent Israelis were looking for someone to blame, there were obvious candidates. The army, t...

…into Israel — from a stockpile we estimated to number nearly 20,000 — and not just at the border settlements but as far south as Hadera and Haifa, keeping hundreds of thousands of Israelis under effective siege. More than 120 Israeli soldiers and 44 civilians were killed. So were...

…stion involved Arafat and the Palestinians. Our other two invasion forces had driven almost all the PLO fighters out of south Lebanon, though not without costs and casualties. Most of the Palestinians, however, had retreated north to their de facto capital, the southwestern neigh...

167 Okinawa and Senkaku/Diaoyu Debates The clearest case of covert meddling occurs far south of Tokyo in Okinawa, the ancient island-kingdom which is geographically closer to Taiwan than it is to the Japanese mainland. As late as 2015, prominent Chinese were asserting that the...

Barely two months after the ambush operation in south Lebanon, Black September seized and murdered members of the Israeli team at the 1972 Olympics in Munich. As soon as the news broke on the morning of September 5, I phoned Ahrahle Yariv as head of military intelligence. “You n...

…. Sinai's lawlessness recently sparked an international incident: On Aug. 18, gunmen carried out a string of attacks in southern Israel that left eight Israelis dead. The Israeli government, which claimed that the attackers were militants from the Gaza Strip who had crossed into...