Word: america
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Opponents of Clinton's Kosovo operation argue that this conflict has nothing to do with America's vital national interests. But Gore brings to his adviser-in-chief role a different definition of what those interests are and where our enemies lie. While America for a century has fielded armies to defend itself against hostile nations with ever more deadly weaponry, Gore believes the future threats will pose dangers that cannot be measured by throw weight--a poisoned environment, vanishing resources, refugees, disease, hunger, crime and terrorism...
...those are America's 21st century foes, Gore has been training for decades to take them on. He was worrying about global warming back in college, when it was still more a theory than a real threat. His interest in stabilizing post-apartheid South Africa has drawn him to the problems of goat farmers and ways of bringing clean water and solar power to remote villages. In 1994 he ordered the CIA to find out why countries fall apart. After feeding 2 million facts and figures from about 113 instances of national collapse into its computers, the intelligence agency came...
Meanwhile, a bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America said he will be meeting with Thiemann, who is an ordained Lutheran minister, to determine what action the church might take against him. The church adopted an official policy opposing pornography in November...
...Bishop Robert L. Isaksen of the New England Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America said their investigation into the matter is "just beginning...
...number of executions in America keeps increasing -- 44 so far this year and perhaps 100 by the end of 1999 -- concerns about the fair application of the ultimate punishment are rising too. The reason: Of the 3,600 inmates on death row, 42 percent are black. On Thursday, in a dramatic indication of how seriously the worries have grown, the Nebraska state legislature voted 27 to 21 to impose a two-year moratorium on executions in the state to allow time to study the role of race and socioeconomic factors on capital punishment sentencing. Pro-death penalty Governor Mike Johanns...