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...then the U.N. force dissolves overnight. But there is no cure for this dilemma, because at its heart lies the U.N. fiction. Its soldiers wear the same colored hats, but they have differently colored , allegiances. When ordered into danger, they will always phone home. How are we going to abolish the allegiance soldiers feel to their flag and country? And how are we going to prevent governments from exercising sovereign control over their own troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Immaculate Intervention | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

...among intellectuals. Their pitch is that only they can root out the rampant corruption of the present regime and force some 500,000 hated ethnic Vietnamese from the country. Says a 24-year-old university student: "The Khmer Rouge can do some things better than the government. They can abolish corruption. They can ensure Cambodia's sovereignty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pol Pot Power | 5/31/1993 | See Source »

...involved, and within a few years the first standardized programs rolled into classrooms. But by the 1960s came the backlash from the John Birch Society, Mothers Organized for Moral Stability and other groups. By the early '70s they had persuaded at least 20 state legislatures to either restrict or abolish sex education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Should We Teach Our Kids about SEX? | 5/24/1993 | See Source »

Tucci argues that his organization wants to abolish totally the practice of abortion through legal and nonviolent means. Boot-camp volunteers were required to sign a pact of nonviolence before every demonstration. And lessons were not given, as far as reporters allowed to witness some of the classroom sessions could determine, in several of the antiabortion faction's most extreme tactics: torching abortion clinics and suffusing them with noxious chemicals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Camp For Crusaders | 4/19/1993 | See Source »

Natale said Monday that SPOA is now trying to undermine rent control because a bill the group spon- sored last year to abolish it failed. "We want to abolish rent control. We're doing everything in our power to do that-chip away, take a nibble, get it all at once...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: State Leaders Study Cambridge Rents | 3/24/1993 | See Source »

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