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...furor over NAFTA, when reduced to its elemental parts, can be summed up in a simple question: do we leave international trade and by extension, the reshaping of the world as we know it, to the bureaucrats and vested in who have coopted these crucial issues...
...fact, Hall and Stillman were totally taken aback by the furor they created. TIME correspondent Ann Blackman asked Hall if he feared that his work would create a backlash against this kind of research. "I revere human life," said Hall, his voice choking with emotion. "I respect people's concerns and feelings. But we have not created human life or destroyed human life in this experiment." To Hall and Stillman, human cloning is simply the next step in the logical progression that started with in-vitro fertilization and is driven by a desire to relieve human suffering -- in this case...
...latest furor over Packwood is largely the result of his own bungling. When the ethics committee first subpoenaed the diaries on Oct. 20, many Senators questioned the propriety and legality of delving into someone's private writings. Packwood's attorney immediately let it be known that the diaries included entries that could lay bare the sextracurricular activities of at least two other legislators -- including a Senator's divorce and his "extended affair" with a staff member, and a liaison between a Senate aide and a member of the House leadership. Last week when colleagues shouted "Blackmail!" Packwood coolly responded...
...furor over the U.N.'s attempt to discipline Loi quickly widened last week into a full-scale international debate over the pistol-packing tactics the peacekeepers are pursuing to destroy one of Somalia's most powerful warlords. After weeks of escalating assaults on Aidid's compounds, the Italian government, the aid community in Mogadishu and many Somali citizens charged that the attacks served mainly to broaden the war and divert attention from the primary goal of humanitarian relief. "A peace mission," said Italian chief of staff General Domenico Corcione, "is being transformed into a war operation...
...quieted with conciliatory rhetoric - or stand-tough bravado. The challenge facing all members of the peacekeeping team is not only how to bring stability to Somalia but also how to devise successful formulas for undertaking a more active role in post-cold war peacemaking. Even if the Loi furor is smoothed over, the real debate has just begun...