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Simulated drills show Taiwan overrun in 6 days TAIPEI - Taiwan's armed forces staged a drill simulating an invasion by China yesterday as a military computer exercise showed that Taiwanese troops could withstand a similar onslaught for just six days. The scenario of the manoeuvre, the first of two rehearsals for a major exercise to be held on Aug 25, was that Taiwanese troops had failed to hold off an amphibious landing by Chinese forces, TVBS cable television showed. As the island's troops tried to stop simulated Chinese forces from pushing further inland, a fleet of US-made Cobra gunships fired...

MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH Jeb Bush: No intervention for Schiavo Case 'in court's hands' on eve of woman's judge-ordered starvation Posted: October 14, 2003 2:30 p.m. Eastern By Art Moore © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com One day before Terri Schindler Schiavo's court-ordered starvation is set to begin, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's office says it can do nothing more to save the brain-disabled woman's life. "This is in the court's hands," Bush's press secretary Alia Faraj told WorldNetDaily. "Our government has committed these decisions to the judicial branch, and we must respect that process." Faraj noted Bush presented his opinion on this...