81.   Our job is to close off as many of those avenues of attack as possible.

82.   Other Palestinians said they believed that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon would use the American attacks as justification for stepping up Israeli attacks on Palestinian targets.

83.   Over the loudspeaker, a Navy captain, who is an accomplished aviator, took pains to outline the moment of the attack as one of great significance.

84.   Palestinian leaders decried the Israeli helicopter attacks as an act of war.

85.   President Yeltsin denounced the attacks as a violation of the U.N. Charter.

86.   Prosecutors say that Asahara planned the attack as a way of fulfilling his own predictions of an Armageddon.

87.   Political leaders portray terrorists as madmen and animals, he said, because it allows them to explain such attacks as senseless aberrations.

88.   Quite apart from personal predilection, however, they also see such attacks as the route to political power.

89.   Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has labeled the attacks as terrorism, an accusation that Palestinians almost universally reject.

90.   Republicans may be well advised, however, to prepare for a flank attack as tax talk becomes more common.