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...memo by Assistant Secretary of Defense David Chu leaked to the press last week. Haste could make billions of dollars in waste, warned Chu. The department's top weapons analyst says plans to deploy 100 ground-based interceptors by 1997 -- rather than 2002, as he recommends -- to fend off small-scale nuclear attacks cannot proceed without major cost overruns and performance problems. In the rush to deploy, he says, the military will have to design and start buying SDI before any of the missiles, radar or communications involved are tested. That is hardly a recipe for success: the record...
...home; if they want political asylum in the U.S., they can go apply at the embassy. This came less than a week after Bush declared that the boat people who had previously been rescued and taken to the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, would be left to fend for themselves unless they were in imminent danger of sinking. The Administration also announced that the refugee camp at Guantanamo, where 11,000 Haitians remain, will be shut down. Those who aren't granted asylum in the U.S. will be sent back as well...
There is a growing consensus among policy experts that tinkering with the existing system will not fix its fundamental problems. Some, like conservative Charles Murray, say the solution is to abolish welfare altogether and force its clients to fend for themselves. In his influential 1984 book, Losing Ground, Murray claimed that AFDC actually increases poverty by serving as a disincentive to work and encouraging women to have illegitimate children they cannot support. Others argue that the dole should give way to an entirely new system based on social insurance and jobs...
...record on environmental issues. A gracious man, Lujan always kept his door open, even when his mind was closed. He was wary of environmentalists and the Endangered Species Act and eager to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. His pro-business credentials were impeccable: he would fend off any serious challenge to sweetheart deals on public lands for oil, mining, timber and ranching interests. And though he had so little interest in Interior's affairs that he at first declined the job, he could not resist a personal appeal from Bush...
...Draft questions still plague Clinton," reported the Wall Street Journal on its front page last Friday. The item added that to fend off Republican attacks on this score, Clinton may feel compelled to pick as his running mate his erstwhile rival Bob Kerrey, who lost a leg and won the Congressional Medal of Honor in Vietnam...