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Yugoslavs may feel the countervailing claims of federation vs. separation are too inimical to settle any other way than by the gun. But even the most ardent of the antagonists still has time to consider whether the Yugoslav parties can solve the problem through peaceful dialogue. The prevailing mood last week was grim. A cease-fire brokered by the European Community came and went. Another, negotiated a few days later by the Yugoslavs themselves, held into the weekend -- but only barely. As many as 180 army tanks and armored vehicles that drove out of the federal capital of Belgrade shortly...
...DOUBT, the infant mortality/abortion rights connection will not sway the most ardent opponents of abortion. If a nine-week fetus is the moral equivalent of a baby, then there is no inconsistency in letting more post-birth babies die for the sake of an equal or greater number of "unborn babies." But the vast majority of the American population (and, arguably, the U.S. Congress) does not accept the radical equation of fetus and baby. Even George Bush agreed with other world leaders at the recent World Summit for Children that "there can be no task nobler than giving every child...
...defends the use of physical force, but when the coercion involved is purely psychological, it becomes hard to assign blame after the fact. Journalist Stephanie Gutmann is an ardent foe of what she calls the date-rape dogmatists. "How can you make sex completely politically correct and completely safe?" she asks. "What a horribly bland, unerotic thing that would be! Sex is, by nature, a risky endeavor, emotionally. And desire is a violent emotion. These people in the date-rape movement have erected so many rules and regulations that I don't know how people can have erotic or desire...
...which they are expected to memorize without question everything they are told. In college they often join informal study groups for camaraderie, but many of these are thinly disguised political- indoctrination cliques dominated by older, left-wing students. Untrained in critical thought, the young students are easily turned into ardent converts...
...Ardent Advocate for Antarctica...