The bond offering, and the repeated threat of legal action, drew a blistering response from the Pataki administration.
First, of course, the practice of making key fiscal decisions a few months at a time, under the repeated threat of draconian consequences, should come to an end.
Never, the report said, did intelligence agencies analyze in a comprehensive way how a hijacked aircraft might be used as a weapon, despite repeated threat reports in the late 1990's that mentioned possible attacks with explosives-laden aircraft.
"This decision explains the repeated threat, arrest, torture and killing of doctors … and their direct families in addition to the systematic targeting of networks in charge of supplying underground medical activities in besieged zones".
Each marries the personal with the political, and it's impossible to read these poems without feeling that their repeated threat, "It will be fire", is personal as well as collective.
It would also enable China to carry out its repeated threat to take over Taiwan if the island were ever to declare formal independence.China's military build-up is ringing alarm bells in Asia and has already caused a pivot in America's defence policy.
