Word: commits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ironic that Powell owes his fame to the arguably successful outcome of the Persian Gulf War. As The New York Times Magazine pointed out in a piece earlier this summer, Powell was reluctant to commit U.S. forces to the war. He only offered military options to Defense Secretary Dick Cheney after they were demanded...
Bosnia absorbed much of the Administration's time, with Powell delivering his "constant, unwelcome message": the U.S. "should not commit military forces until we had a clear political objective.'' In one particularly heated debate, Powell recalls U.N. Ambassador Madeleine Albright asking him in frustration, "What's the point of having this superb military that you're always talking about if we can't use it?'' As Powell relates it, "I thought I would have an aneurysm. American G.I.s were not toy soldiers to be moved around on some sort of global game board...I told Ambassador Albright that...
ATROCITIES WILL BE SELF-PERPETUATING unless someone breaks the cycle. To execute Susan Smith [CRIME, Aug. 7], considering her age and her family background, would have perpetuated the crime she committed. The jury chose a path that offers hope for a break in the abuse-and-atrocity cycle. In years to come, Smith's sharing of the distorted emotions that caused her to commit such an atrocity may prevent another from occurring. That is Smith's destiny, that is her challenge, and that is her salvation. MARTIN KOPACZ Houston...
...catalyst of these emotions is Mumia Abu-Jamal, 41, a prizewinning journalist. He is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 10 p.m. on Aug. 17 for a crime he insists he did not commit: the 1981 slaying of police officer Daniel Faulkner. Sympathizers around the globe from Dublin to Soweto hail him as a political prisoner punished for taking journalistic aim at politicians, police and the prison system (most recently in a book entitled Live from Death Row). If he is put to death, they argue, he will be the first American since Ethel and Julius Rosenberg...
...Simpson defense team ran into some heavy battering -- from its own witnesses. Among the damaging testimony and evidence elicited by prosecutors: a doctor who said that although Simpson was physically infirm, he would have been fit enough to commit the murders; an O.J. workout videotape made shortly before the murders in which he jokes about punching "the wife"; and a police photographer who said bloody socks never showed up in a tape he made of O.J.'s bedroom because they had already been collected by police...