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...large extent, the hesitations of Congress echo the ambivalence of the American public. Most polls show that a majority of Americans support the U.S. goal of expelling Iraq from Kuwait. Yet the American people are divided over the prospect of rushing into war on the timetable set by the President. Many members of Congress returned to Washington last week reporting that letters from their constituents strongly favored giving sanctions more time to work and urged the lawmakers to get into...
...soul cannot rest until the body is returned to nature, by burial or cremation. Hundreds of thousands of Indian corpses were dug from their graves and carted away for display. "Grave robbing was so widespread that virtually every tribe in the country has been victimized," says Pawnee Indian Walter Echo-Hawk, staff attorney at the Native American Rights Fund...
...Senator from Connecticut. Bush met Dwight Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, the diplomat who riled the world by suggesting he had "to go to the brink" of war to keep peace. The President ponders a question on whether his current policy is a Dulles echo, then says, "Maybe so, maybe so. What I'm trying to do is convince Saddam Hussein that I intend to do my part in implementing the United Nations resolutions. The way to have peace is for him to understand that. I don't think he does...
...that the gulf crisis would not be "another Vietnam," but in a way it already is. Everywhere you look, they're back: the hawks, the doves, the generals and Administration officials on the defensive, the clergymen and professors, the has-beens and wannabes on the offensive. Even the slogans echo across the years. ALL WE ARE SAYING, read a sign in front of the White House last week, IS GIVE SANCTIONS A CHANCE...
Harsh as it may seem, al-Ebraheem's assessment is common. Across the ideological spectrum -- from those who regularly opposed the ruling elite's every move to some of the elite's most prominent members -- the echo startles. "Ours was a culture of dependency," says Tareq al-Suwaidan, a leader of the opposition Islamic Trend movement. "We were the pampered product of an affluent society taken to the nth degree," says Minister of Planning Sulaiman Mutawa. "Everywhere," remarks Ali Jaber al-Sabah, a KPC managing director, "there was the spirit of ba'dain, of 'tomorrow.' Any real change...