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Abourezk on Israel

Cover Story Sidebar | "If we in the United States are to furnish Phantom Jets, bombs, napalm, firebombs, and money to fuel the planes when they do the bombing and the killing in southern Lebanon, then we must be held accountable for the deaths that will result from what I consider to be official Israeli government terrorist activities-no less terrorist in the nature than an act of three or four individual Arabs who kill civilians in Israel." (Congressional Record, June 21, 1974) "Perhaps the most fundamental

A Short Bio of Thomas Daschle

Cover Story Sidebar | Born Dec. 9. 1947 Graduated from South Dakota State University, B.A. (1969) Served as Intelligence officer in U.S. Strategic Air Force Command, 1969-1972 Served as legislative assistant to U.S. Sen. James Abourezk (1972-1977) Elected to U.S. House of Representatives in 1978; seved until 1986 Married Linda Hall Daschle; three children from previous marriage to Laurie Klinkel, whom he divorced in 1983 Elected to U.S. Senate in 1986 Became Senate Majority Leader in 2001

Mad Daschle

Cover Story | He advanced quickly from senior-class president to foreign-policy aide for the Senate's most outspoken anti-Israel lawmaker to one of Washington's youngest congressmen. Today, he's one of the most powerful men in the world, able to derail many presidential plans, yet little is known-and even less is written-of his early climb. Here's a view of the lower rungs

In this issue: "Who is Tom Daschle?," Oct. 12, 2002

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Lili leashed

Gulf Storms |  Hurricane that menaced U.S. coastline weakened before lashing Louisiana; second storm in less than a week still packs punch

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High-tech persecution

Sudan |  Islamic regime tests its new Russian-made MiGs on civilian targets, then shuts down all humanitarian aid flights to the south, aggravating already "abysmal"

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Top News

This Week |  The Top 5 news stories as measured by coverage in The Washington Post, USA Today, and NBC Nightly News from Sept. 25 to Oct. 1

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Feeding a famine

Zimbabwe |  Politically created and sustained famine "dwarfs" those of Ethiopia and Sudan that captured so many headlines. Church groups are stepping in to relieve…

Dispatches

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In Brief

News highlights from around the world

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Quotables

I had the abortion and paid for it all my life until I healed and am now able to help other women. Actress Jennifer O'Neill, at a Capitol Hill briefing last…

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Quick Takes

No Osama sightings America may want Osama Bin Laden dead or alive, but no one seems to know for certain whether he is dead or alive. Experts now lean toward…

Reviews

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Pavement pounded

Movies |  Watching Hollywood grapple with religious themes is always intriguing, mostly because it so rarely gets them right. Changing Lanes , recently released on video,

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Best Sellers

Culture |  Scoring system:10 points for first place, 9 for second, down to 1 for tenth, on the lists of the American Booksellers Association (independent, sometimes…

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News they can use

Culture |  Homosexual activists lobby newspapers for gay-union announcements-and show how to wage a culture war

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Frail effort

Movies |  Unlike Changing Lanes, Frailty , also recently released on video, primarily exploits its religious themes for pure shock value. Many critics liked the…

Notebook

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Flash Traffic

Flash Traffic |  Political Buzz from Washington

Voices

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Getting your fix

To news junkies a word of welcome and warning: Get the Good News first

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Mailbag

Hypothetically One of the Ohio state school board's proposed curriculum rule changes is supposed to "reflect that evolution is a theory only" (Big bang in…

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What's the difference?

Candidate by candidate, sometimes not much-but party does matter

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Eight principles

How Christians should relate to those of other faiths

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