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WASHINGTON--Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) said yesterday he finds it curious that the White House is moving toward military action in Kosovo just before the November election. He said neither the American public nor Congress would support sending American ground troops to the area...
...closed-door briefings to members of Congress last week, the administration generally found bipartisan support for threatened NATO airstrikes aimed at protecting civilians in Kosovo. But several lawmakers said airstrikes alone would not be enough, that ground troops would have to be dispatched to keep the peace...
...diplomatic solution includes "putting a few more people on the ground from NATO to make sure the peace is kept, then I'm for it," said House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt (D-Mo.)on ABC's "This Week with Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts." "This is the new world we are in: We are peace-keepers, and we have to help the world do that...
Senators "came out of that briefing shaken," he said, "because there is no real plan on how to carry this out, there is no plan B, and to suggest that we would have ground troops there without any plan of what that would mean, how to get out, I think is unacceptable...
...defensive side of the ball, the Crimson will also have to show some improvement against the Hawks. Harvard has given up a total of 414 yards on the ground over its first two games, and an additional 318 in the air, while allowing 58 points...