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...pathetic one. Last week began with the spectacle of Akashi standing in the rain at Sarajevo's airport -- closed for aid flights since Bosnian Serbs shot up an American cargo plane on April 13 -- trying to spin into a success his failure to extend the cease-fire between the government and the Serbs. No one had signed anything, but all sides, he said, had "undertaken a solemn engagement to show maximum restraint." Unfortunately, even with a cease-fire agreement, the parties have not exactly been known for their restraint. While the cease-fire was still in effect, the Bosnian Serbs...
...Bush would return all Haitian boat people, including political refugees fleeing for their lives, to the tender mercies of Haiti's military junta. "It is a blow to America's moral authority in defending the rights of refugees around the world." Last week President Clinton announced that he would extend the Bush approach to refugees from Cuba. It was the first time the U.S. has ever endorsed the forcible return of refugees to a communist country...
...good strong base of support in theBlack community," he says. "The question is, doesthe district extend far enough outside the Blackcommunity so that the anti-Alvin whites [couldnot] take...
...subject to reconsideration. Then there's the gun lobby, which only a few weeks ago was basking in its renewed clout in Congress. For a while at least, it's once more on the defensive. And if high passion itself becomes less fashionable, the reverberations may even extend to single-issue politics on topics like abortion...
...Deal, however, the Supreme Court has permitted the government to breach certain portions of this wall, using a clause in the Constitution that grants Congress the power to "regulate commerce among the several states." With the court's acquiescence, federal lawmakers have employed the clause as a way to extend their authority into areas of life as diverse as racial discrimination in restaurants and limits on farm products. Most of the civil rights legislation of the 1960s depends on the Commerce Clause. And in recent years Congress has eagerly seized upon the court's generous reading of the clause...