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...program for the city's 261,000 high school students. Under the plan, staff volunteers at each school would hand out condoms, along with a booklet explaining their use, to every student who wants them. Sex counseling would be available but would not be required, for fear it would deter students from seeking protection...
...decision is made, in spite of these considerations, to wait and see what sanctions could do, the next step would have to be rotation of U.S. troops out of the region. Their numbers would have to be cut to just enough to deter an Iraqi attack on Saudi Arabia. That kind of pullout would give Saddam a propaganda windfall by enabling him to claim a great victory over the foreign invaders. Once again, he could say, the Americans lacked staying power. After a year or two, even if Iraq's military strength has deteriorated badly, Washington could find it politically...
...That has not stopped thousands of desperate Albanians from crossing into Greece since the last week of 1990. In early December, four fleeing Albanians were shot dead ( near the frontier by soldiers of the Stalinist regime in Tirana. Last week, by contrast, refugees walked into Greece with little to deter them except the cold and the mountains. Instead of opening fire, border guards merely shot curses at the fugitives. By week's end about 5,000 refugees streamed into the northwestern Greek province of Epirus, doubling the population of the border area. Most of the fugitives belonged to Albania...
...there are dangers in silence as well. If Bush hopes to convince Saddam that the country is behind its President, no move would send a stronger signal than a congressional declaration of war. If war turns disastrous, moreover, a Congress that had done nothing to deter the President would be vulnerable to charges that it had let down the people it purports to represent. Georgia Democratic Senator Sam Nunn warns that once troops go into battle, it will be too late for Congress to be arguing the propriety of war. "The time for debate," he insists, "is before that occurs...
Although U.S. officials believe Iraq does not pose an imminent nuclear threat, they do not necessarily dismiss the wisdom of a continuing technological embargo and even a military strike to deter Saddam's atomic program before it gets much further. They argue that the reckless Iraqi leader might use or threaten to use nuclear weapons if he ever obtains them. But an attack to prevent this, says an Administration official, would be a "preventative war, not a pre-emptive one. It doesn't explain why you go to war this month as opposed to six months from...