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...memorials to Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt or war veterans without hassles, dress codes or security checks and say, "I own a part of this place. It is mine." One might argue that these are just the necessary steps to ensure everyone's safety--whatever distance must come between President and citizen, the rationale would go, is for their mutual benefit. But it seems that America may be losing that irrational, incredible feel of ownership unnecessarily...
...thinking about Edmund Randolph, President Washington's Secretary of State, who was falsely accused of taking money from a foreign country. Rather than defend himself in office, distracting the nation from the delicate negotiations over the Jay Treaty, he resigned at once and conducted his defense as a private citizen. Clinton has a similar opportunity, though, as he said of this important time in America's history as a superpower, the moment can be squandered. The longer he resorts to half measures, the harder it will be to make a clean (and cleansing) break. It will be harder then...
...course, the man at the top should be a model citizen. But one must not go too far in judging a public man by his private life. Besides the risk of mak-ing ourselves ridiculous in giving too much importance to a commonplace matter, there is the terrible danger of sinking into extreme puritanism--that is fundamentalism. JEAN-PIERRE CAUSSE Sete, France...
Then comes the hardest part of all: bringing the terrorists to justice. Although the U.S. claims the legal right to try anyone for the murder of an American citizen abroad, prosecutors first have to get their hands on the suspect, and that has proved a major stumbling block even in cases where miscreants are firmly identified. Libya has refused to extradite the accused bombers of Pan Am 103; Saudi Arabia insists on investigating, trying and punishing suspects, like the four men beheaded for blowing up a U.S. training center in Riyadh in 1995, without ever letting the FBI interrogate them...
...That's how I feel about that song. It's made me a world citizen...