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...this week, to be followed shortly by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and, next week, by the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Congress has been demanding a voice in any decision to fight Iraq; 45 House Democrats went so far as to file a lawsuit asking the federal courts to enjoin Bush from committing U.S. forces to combat without prior authorization from Congress. A U.N. use-of-force resolution could encourage Congress to grant such authorization. "It would have some significant impact if the United Nations granted such a resolution," said House Speaker Thomas Foley, one of several leaders who accompanied...
...been keeping its promise with all the ferocity, and discrimination, of a hurtling bobsled -- suing or threatening to sue anybody suspected of misusing the word Olympic or 217 different logos and trademarks. Charging an infringement of its licensing rights to the five-ring symbol, O.C.O. unsuccessfully tried to enjoin Maclean's, a weekly Canadian magazine, from publishing a special Olympic edition. It even went after an Ottawa eatery known as the Olympic Diner and the twelve-year-old Olympic Drilling Co., an Ottawa-based water well-drilling firm. "These people are crazy," said Olympic's Gisele Renwick...
INSTEAD, an opportunity to enjoin debate on a high level was passed up in favor of the low road. Instead of one candidate questioning another, the dope on Biden was passed under the table to the press, to be revealed in a front-page New York Times story that seemed to come from nowhere. If this is the case Sasso used the press to stifle debate...
Some Israelis were outraged by all the talk of a new prisoner exchange. The families of seven victims of Palestinian terrorists held a vigil outside the U.S. consulate general in Jerusalem and later demanded that the Israeli Supreme Court legally enjoin a trade. Shouted a demonstrator: "The blood of our children has been spilled, and the government plans to free the terrorists who murdered them. If the judges decide to free the terrorists, we personally will kill them...
...dawn's first light, more than 100 members of M Company, 42nd Commando, of the Royal Marines were landed on remote and mountainous South Georgia Island, a British dependency some 800 miles east of the Falklands. By 6 that evening, Prime Minister Thatcher was able to enjoin Britons to "rejoice, rejoice," as she and Defense Secretary John Nott announced the recapture of their first objective in the South Atlantic without a single British casualty. Fighting continued on South Georgia, however, until at least 10 a.m. the following...