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But guns help. Last year, Arroyo declared what she called an "all-out war" to destroy the N.P.A., and she has promised her commanders $200 million for better weapons and pay for their troops. The rebels, for their part, have stepped up operations against what they call an "illegitimate, rotten...
DIED. E. Howard Hunt, 88, aide to Richard Nixon who engineered the Watergate break-in; in Miami. A CIA operative from 1949 to '70 and the author of more than 80 spy novels, Hunt served 33 months in prison for his role in the scandal, which exploded when one of...
Duke University’s president declared late last week that he has no intention to fill the post left by former University President Lawrence H. Summers.
Nowhere has the fabled system of checks and balances proved more contentious. Because so much is at stake in questions of war and peace, the founders in effect crafted an invitation to perpetual conflict between Congress and the President. On no occasion has Congress compelled the President to undertake a...
But Presidents have consistently dominated this long-running political contest--conspicuously including F.D.R., who eventually wore down isolationist sentiment and took the country into World War II. And while there have been only five formally declared wars, the U.S. has deployed its armed forces abroad more than 200 times, usually...