"A returning veteran does not step back on the escalator at the same point he stepped off, " says Navy Capt.

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And in an article in the New York Times this week the White House chief counsel, Alberto Gonzales, stepped back on one point: defendants will have the right of appeal to civilian courts (through a habeas corpus proceeding).

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He was coming into the capital for his final campaign rally and when he stopped outside Waterloo police station, our rendezvous point, and stepped out of his car, he was immediately surrounded, even in this small place, by hundreds of people.

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