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...sweeping about-face on 60 years of social policy. The bill eliminates federal guarantees of assistance to the needy and relies instead on capped block grants, mostly to be administered as each statehouse decides. President Clinton indicated he would sign the measure unless a House-Senate conference reinstates "extremist" provisions, such as banning aid to unwed teenage mothers, earlier adopted by the House. Dispirited liberal Democrats assailed the overhaul as a catastrophe for the nation's poor and criticized the President for not rejecting the plan...
...which makes the horror that much more chilling. FBI officials say even if they had had the legal authority and had hired enough agents to infiltrate every extremist group in the country, they could not have prevented the Oklahoma City bombing. McVeigh and Nichols may have shared the government-hating ideology of many armed militias, but they were such fringe figures that even intense surveillance of organized militia groups would probably have failed to identify them as potential terrorists...
...missiles per year; a move on our part to continue missile testing could sacrifice the future of this program and place at risk the hard-won U.S.-Russian candor now prevalent in nuclear politics, More importantly, it could give new fuel to the extremist view in Russia that NATO's hegemony of Eastern Europe will bring western military installations--stockpiled with freshly tested warheads--unprecedentedly and threateningly close to Moscow...
...tell us about, as in "addicted to love" and "I would do anything to hold on to you." Whether Smith intended to kill herself or just wanted to win back her lover by getting rid of the kids, we will never know for sure. Either way, she was an extremist in the cause of love, and her sons, horribly enough, were human sacrifices to it. "Good" women put the children first. They forgo disruptive romantic entanglements; if necessary, they endure loveless marriages until the kids grow up. This is what Susan Smith would have done if she had any capacity...
...House Republicans, in particular." Asked about the letter today, Clinton happily riffed through his police-friendly accomplishments (the Brady bill, the assault weapons ban) and again called for a ban on armor-piercing "cop-killer" bullets. To Republicans, Clinton said: "If you do succumb to the political pressures from extremist groups to repeal any of these measures, I will veto them in a heartbeat...