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...manage to reach bipartisan agreement on a $265 billion defense bill, which President Clinton is expected to sign, after vetoing an earlier effort last month. In the new legislation, Congress dropped three provisions the President could not accept: a missile defense system, restrictions on the President's power to commit American troops to United Nations missions and a requirement that he request new funds for any overseas military actions...
...issues to their precinct commanders.) The Bratton version of community policing is to devise strategies that target specific criminal behavior. Special squads are dispatched to hit high-crime hot spots, while others track down illegal guns. Precinct detectives now interrogate suspects not just about the crimes they may have committed but also about other gun and drug dealers they know. Eventually, Bratton believes, all the policies begin to dovetail, and crime drops through the floor. "Most criminals commit multiple crimes," he says. "We're processing crime data faster than ever before, so we can identify patterns early and stop them...
Cases don't come any harder than Poncelet's. His drifting life reaches its nadir when, with another man, he commits a lovers' lane rape and double murder, steadfastly (and unpersuasively) insisting that he did not commit the killings. There is about him an inchoate rage tempered, if that's the word we want, by self-pity and a certain raw intelligence, which has led him to jailhouse lawyering and several stays of execution. It is largely the latter quality, and the challenging seductiveness of his manner, that leads Sister Helen to see in him the possibilities of redemption...
Sidelined, as it has customarily been whenever the Commander in Chief has decided to commit U.S. troops abroad, a deeply ambivalent Congress voted on a jumble of Bosnia resolutions. The net effect of the House and Senate actions was to express full support for the U.S. troops who will be sent on the nato peacekeeping mission but to register deep reservations about the deployment...
Making her way through the long questionnaire required by the WHI to commit herself to the study, she wishes aloud that scientists will hold more answers in the future about women's health...