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Most experts dismiss the possibility that the Soviets, especially since Afghanistan, would be so imprudent as to undertake any direct invasion of Yugoslavia. An invading force from the Soviet Union, which would require 35 or more divisions, totaling more than 300,000 men, would have to take on a large-scale fight not only against the well-equipped 259,000-man Yugoslav army but also against the 3 million-member partisan militia. In addition, there would be the risk of causing a confrontation with the Western allies...
...French dismiss such references to prior American help as irrelevant in today's world but the West Germans do recognize that gratitude ought to be a factor. Says Helmut Kohl, chairman of West Germany's Christian Democratic Union: "We have relied on the U.S. for our protection, including Berlin's. It is only right that we now stand with the U.S., for the entire West's sake...
Courts will dismiss any criminal statute that does not meet the well-established test of telling a person of "ordinary intelligence" what conduct is prohibited. To satisfy this requirement, the DEA model contains a 55-word definition of "paraphernalia," describes in detail dozens of pieces of equipment that would qualify as paraphernalia if used in connection with drugs (including bongs, balloons and blenders), and spells out 14 factors to be considered by police and courts in determining whether an item is likely to be used for drug-related purposes. Still, the constitutional obstacle remains formidable: Deputy Assistant Attorney General Irvin...
...fallibility of preprimary polls leads some to dismiss their utility altogether. Says Lucien Haas, an aide to Senate Majority Whip Alan Cranston of California: "The polls are absolutely worthless." That is an exaggeration. The real problem is that since polling can assess the views of a body of voters but not which of those voters will actually vote, a preprimary sampling is only an approximation of what is likely to happen. Any politician or pundit who attributes to such a poll more accuracy or importance than it can realistically have does so at his own risk...
Experienced campaigners now seem to have the upper hand over press questioners. If it's any consolation, no candidate, however tempted, has so far dared to dismiss importuning reporters in the way Muhammad Ali does: "I ain't gonna answer that because if I did, you'd be just as smart...