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...necessary in order for UN inspectors to be able to do their jobs, this may mean the end of ground-based reconaissance. In the end, the decision to launch missile strikes on Iraq is another big win for Saddam Hussein. "The strikes are tantamount to an acknowledgment of defeat from the U.S.," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. UNSCOM's on-the-ground effort at arms control through inspection is now over. A more violent -- and less effective -- era of containing Saddam is now under...
...explains Netanyahu's recalcitrance, and his contention that Israel's soldiers are going nowhere until Arafat also abandons plans to declare a Palestinian state in May. "In the zero-sum game that the peace process has become," Beyer says, "for Israel this visit has to be seen as a defeat." For Arafat, though, even a failed round of peace talks has rarely seemed so sweet...
...counsel who brought the Monica Lewinsky affair to the House of Representatives. Or Henry Hyde, the silver-haired chairman of the House committee where articles of impeachment originate. Or even Bob Livingston, who will soon replace Newt Gingrich as Speaker. Instead the author of Bill Clinton's most historic defeat, if it happens, will be Tom DeLay, a flinty former pest exterminator from Sugar Land, Texas, with a tense smile and a talent for making offers his fellow Republican lawmakers can't refuse...
...first time in weeks, the White House began picking up the scent of a possible defeat. Despite the embarrassing missteps of chairman Hyde--who reversed his widely panned decision to broaden the impeachment inquiry into campaign-finance abuses just two days after he got started--the week ended with the Clinton camp showing signs of desperation. In what might be an attempt to push the vote into next year--when five more Democrats enter the House--Clinton's lawyers demanded that they be given three extra days this week to call witnesses and argue the President's case in front...
CONCESSION STAND It's hard to be a good loser. It's much more dignified to blame voter fraud. Dennis Vacco waited until last week, then his lawyer conceded defeat for him in the New York Attorney General's race. Notable holdouts on the give-it-up front...