Letters Log.Byline: The Register-Guard Letters received in past week: 207 Letters published: 71 What's on What's On (Traditional Chinese: 熒幕八爪娛) is a weekly half-hour TV series that airs on Fairchild Television. Format Originally started in 1996, the show is currently the longest-running program in Fairchild Television history. readers' minds: The U.S. war against Iraq Iraq or Irak (both: ēräk`, ĭrăk`), officially Republic of Iraq, republic (2005 est. pop. 26,075,000), 167,924 sq mi (434,924 sq km), SW Asia. once again dominated the past week's Mailbag flow. As of mid-morning Friday, we received 108 letters about the war - more than half the total volume of letters. About four out of every five letters opposed President Bush's decision to take preemptive pre·emp·tive or pre-emp·tive adj. 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of preemption. 2. Having or granted by the right of preemption. 3. a. military action against Saddam Hussein's regime. We received 36 letters about anti-war protests, with many of those readers debating whether it's possible to both support U.S. troops in Iraq and express public opposition to the war. Other topics included the state's budget crisis and the Drug Enforcement Administration's recent arrest of two local glass-pipe makers as part of a nationwide bust called Operation Pipe Dreams Operation Pipe Dream was the code-name for a nationwide investigation in 2003 targeting businesses selling drug paraphernalia, mostly marijuana pipes and bongs, under a little-used statute (Title 21, Section 863(a) of the U.S. Code. . |
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