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...restraint and in self-defense, U.S. officials believe they can hold together the delicate Arab alliance. A large- scale Israeli counterattack, however, could ignite a second war in the region. An Iraqi-Israeli battle, for example, would entail massive violations of Jordanian airspace, confronting King Hussein with a critical dilemma. Diplomatic sources say Jordan and Israel have held secret contacts to clarify their positions. Israeli officials, who are acutely aware that any confrontation with Jordan could prompt Syrian intervention, stress that Israel will strike Jordanian air defenses only if Israeli planes are first attacked by King Hussein's jets...
Most Painful Dilemma The right-to-die issue heated up when the parents of Nancy Cruzan, a comatose Missouri woman, petitioned the Supreme Court for permission to remove her feeding tube. The high court upheld a state's right to demand evidence of the patient's intent. A Missouri judge then ruled that the tube could be removed...
...legal dilemma involves two competing clauses in the nation's governing document. Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution states, "The Congress shall have Power . . . to declare War." But according to Article II, Section 2, "The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States." In Judge Greene's courtroom, Attorney Stuart Gerson of the Justice Department argued that history provides numerous examples of Presidents exercising their powers as Commander in Chief without a formal declaration of war. Thomas Jefferson, he noted, committed the Navy to battle against the Barbary pirates without a green...
...also suits AT&T's long-term computer strategy. The two companies' machines are largely compatible, using the same operating software, called Unix, invented by AT&T in 1969. As a result, they would be able to integrate their product lines rather than face the dilemma of having to eliminate a system. But more important for AT&T, the addition of NCR would enhance the company's position in its ongoing battle with IBM to establish Unix as the industry standard. Both companies want to replace the technically outdated standard known as DOS. IBM's entry, called OS/2, appears...
...scientific community is responsible in a major way for the paradoxes and dilemmas in which we find ourselves. The paradox is that this decay is occurring at a time when there are more opportunities than ever to ferret out the secrets of human biology and apply those secrets to the reduction of human suffering. The dilemma is that we must obtain more funding for the support of this effort in order to capitalize on those opportunities and improve the morale of the scientific community, while at the same time acknowledging that we have been generously supported for the past...