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...Preliminary findings of a new study indicate that neutrality may be fading. According to the study, conducted by political science professors from Duke and the University of North Carolina, military leaders are voicing more conservative views than ever before, and they are not views shared by most of their civilian counterparts. The majority of today?s military identifies itself as Republican, believes that prayer should be permitted in public schools and thinks military leaders share the values of the American people. This sparks some concern: Will a conservative, vocal military emerge as a new political force...
...trouble for Reno and the FBI is not so much with what's out there as with the facts that may still be undetected and undigested in their files. James B. Francis, civilian overseer of the Texas department of public safety and thus head of the elite Texas Rangers (regional rivals of the FBI), told TIME, "I have known for some time that certain pieces of evidence may be problematic to what the FBI public position has been." He has had his department petition federal court to determine custody of the tons of documentary and physical evidence gathered...
...evidence of some polls. A Gallup/CNN/USA Today poll that has tracked the issue since 1990 found that in June 1999, only 62% of Americans favored stricter gun laws, compared with 78% in 1990. And a Gallup poll found that the percentage of people who believe the government should ban civilian handgun possession has fallen from 41% in 1981 to 38% in 1999. Perhaps a growing number of Americans have begun to realize gun-control laws do not make people safer. H. STERLING BURNETT NICOLE SCHIERECK National Center for Policy Analysis Dallas...
...troubled province Monday, Holbrooke warned that Kosovo would be "the ultimate test of the U.N.?s capability and potential," reiterating Washington?s message that Kosovo was now the U.N.?s to lose. Although the limited resources available to the international body have plagued its relief, administrative and civilian policing operations, the fundamental obstacle to winning the peace in Kosovo remains the ethnic violence that has continued unabated despite the presence of the NATO-led peacekeeping force...
Escalating the conflict, however, raises the political risk. Intensified bombing would inevitably bring greater civilian casualties, and with a United Nations report released Thursday showing that the death rate among Iraqi children under age 5 has doubled in the era of U.N. sanctions, will only add to the disquiet of Washington?s Arab and European allies over U.S. Iraq policy (even if, as Washington insists, much of that suffering is caused by Saddam?s failure to distribute humanitarian supplies allowed through under the embargo). In addition, as a senior administration official told the Times, unless the U.S. and its allies...