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Second, the amendment would have eliminated the resolution's 60-day automatic withdrawal of troops. The cutoff, which unnecessarily ties the president's hands, becomes an excuse for presidents to bypass the resolution's substantive requirement--consulting Congress. The Byrd-Nunn proposal--establishing a permanent consultative group and lifting the 60-day rule--would help the War Powers Resolution to reach its original aims...
...director general Edouard Saouma, an autocratic executive who likes to run his own show, has fought to keep control. Under threat of a funding cutoff from the sponsoring organizations, however, the U.N. organization agreed in Geneva earlier this month to cede control of the program to an outside governing council and to participate in the program's redesign. For the moment, these decisions have partially mollified critics, who are willing to wait to see whether these actions will produce meaningful reform...
...work done by Imanishi-Kari. In a statement issued from Rockefeller University, where he is now president, he acknowledged that "very serious questions" had been raised, and for the first time asked that the original paper be retracted. He left it to Imanishi-Kari -- who faces a possible cutoff of federal research funding -- to explain what went wrong...
Rensselaer (17-9 overall, 12-6 ECAC) currently sits in fourth place in the league--the cutoff point for first-round home ice--and one win ahead of fifth-place Harvard (10-10-2, 10-6-2). An Engineers win would clinch a fourth-place finish (and home ice) for Rensselaer--assuming they beat the Big Green the next night--and would just about put the nail in the coffin for Crimson home-ice hopes...
...failure to deal with the Palestinian problem could likewise stir rebellion in Jordan. Even if Hussein weathers such storms, the Jordanian economy has been wrecked by the cutoff of trade with Iraq prescribed by U.N. sanctions; the specter of the 1989 riots prompted by government austerity measures still looms large...