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Government basically has two options: suppressing the violence with force or removing the causes of the violence. It was the former that prompted Mayor Kelly's plan to deploy the National Guard. The presence of armed troops would no doubt have a sobering effect on those spreading havoc. Knowing that help was really around the corner would also embolden citizens of these areas and alleviate the siege mentality present in these urban areas...
...offer them to the elderly and the sterile, to gays and lesbians, and not only to fertile hetero-sexuals. We provide everyone with help to stabilize and elevate their sexual relationships, and so achieve the benefits that natural lawyers rightly claim for marriage. This allows us to accept and deploy a reasoned and defensible version of natural...
...violence in Somalia and the stumbling in Haiti have stirred up isolationist forces at home. Congressional leaders such as Senators Robert C. Byrd (D.-W.Va.) and Robert J. Dole (R.-Kansas) are hoping to institute tough restrictions on future operations. They would like the U.S. to deploy military personnel abroad only when our immediate national interests were affected. In other words: not in Somalia, not in Haiti, not in Bosnia. Without active United States support, hopes of making the United Nations an effective institution would be put on hold and potentially shattered...
...probably won't. Space is a harsh and unforgiving place, where Murphy's Law is paramount. In fact, many of NASA's best public relations successes have come at the brink of failure. Engineers restored 70% of the Galileo probe's function after its main antenna failed to deploy; astronauts grabbed the Intelsat-6 satellite by hand when a less dramatic rescue technique proved useless; astronauts survived an explosion on Apollo 13 that could easily have been fatal...
...former acting ambassador in Moscow, was assigned to provide U.S. "good offices" to ex-Soviet republics that would like outside help in settling disputes with their neighbors. U.S. officials insist that Collins will mediate only when both parties to a conflict want him to, that Washington will never deploy peacekeeping troops in the former U.S.S.R., and that the U.S. will scrupulously avoid manipulating the politics of Russia's neighbors for its own advantage. "We may never be able to convince every Russian that we have this altruistic motive," says a senior State Department official, "but quite frankly, that's what...