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...what "liberty"? And how high a price for it? Bush's vague rhetoric--and his refusal to seek approval from Congress for his de facto pursuit of war--have needlessly pushed the world to the brink of catastrophe. Before blindly accepting the costs of a military assault on Kuwait (or as some suggest, Iraq), Bush should seek a negotiated solution to the crisis that involves the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from populated areas of Kuwait, and the establishment of military deterrence to further aggression...
Shamir's determination to reduce the Palestinian presence in Israel -- while preserving Israel's de facto annexation of the territories -- is likely to backfire, widening the fissure along Israel's 1967 borders. "You can't just put Palestinians into refugee camps with no money and no work," says left- wing Knesset member Shulamit Aloni. "That would be hell." Eventually Shamir will have to decide whether to allow Palestinians to nurture their own economy or whether simply to send more soldiers into the territories to face the wrath of the unemployed...
...political crisis had left the community states concerned over their sovereignty. During that crisis, the community had adopted a consensus form of decision making, which gave states a "de facto veto" over community policy, said Weiler...
...great society dreamed of by John Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. and planned by Lyndon Johnson has not come to pass. America's racial problem is exacerbated by the de facto exclusion of blacks from the core of national politics, in part because, traditionally Democrats, they face an age of Republican hegemony in the White House. In an era of weakened Federal Government, blacks feel increasingly isolated. It was the Federal Government, after all, that saved them twice in history: from slavery in the 19th century; from segregation in the 20th. The reduction of that government's powers...
...jails." Up to 30% of the estimated 500,000 homeless in the U.S. suffer from serious mental disorders, mostly schizophrenia and manic depression, as do 10% of the 1 million people behind bars. With 3,600 psychotic inmates, the Los Angeles County jail is "the largest de facto mental institution in the nation," says the report. Countless other distressed people inhabit squalid apartments or transient hotels, without adequate food, clothing or medical care...