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There is a real contest of ideas in this campaign. Bob Dole offers a government that gets out of the way and lets people solve their own problems. Bill Clinton believes that the government should help people equip themselves to solve their own problems. This is a debate with real merits, and one that exposes the central fault lines of American political discourse. It is a debate we can be proud of, and a debate that is worthy of the campaign to elect the first president of the next century...
Dole, however, does not, and he isn't likely to go recruiting now. "All of us have submitted vision speeches," says a Republican Senator, one of many who hoped to equip Dole with some bright flags to mark the boundaries of his beliefs so voters would know where to find him. "All of us wonder what happened to them...
...hole six yards high and eight yards wide into the mountain. These had to be constantly replaced. Stop the supply of spare bits, the CIA men told Kohl's advisers, and the boring machines would soon become useless. Embarrassed by revelations in 1988 that German companies had helped equip the original Rabta plant, Kohl quickly ordered Westfalia-Becorit to shut down the spare-parts pipeline...
...these resource-poor countries to win the war against narco-trafficking. St. Kitts and Nevis continue to cooperate fully with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, and they have entered into several treaty arrangements to fight the anathema of illicit drug trading. My government has undertaken to restructure, train and equip the local police force and coast guard in our fight to stem the flow of illegal drugs into our country. The drug problem is not of our own making. However, we remain committed to addressing it. GERALD DWYER ASTAPHAN, Minister Tourism, Culture and Environment St. Christopher and Nevis St. Kitts...
...supplied with older U.S. Army gear, General John Shalikashvili, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, notes that this could cause problems. "The training is not that easy if you give them U.S. or Western arms," he says. "They are now trained on and employ mostly former Soviet equipment." It may be smarter, defense officials say, to equip the Muslims with Soviet weaponry. (In the cold war's wake, Europe is awash in it.) Finally, the effort is likely to cost several hundred million dollars...