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...groups (CLCS), these militias serve as watch groups, police forces and eyes and ears for U.S. forces all over Iraq. But while American commanders are delighted to have help, not all Iraqis are comfortable with the CLCS. Many in the Shi'ite-led Iraqi government worry that the citizens groups???which are mostly Sunni and in some cases are little better than street gangs?will eventually morph into antigovernment militias. Lately al-Qaeda has stepped up attacks on Sunnis who take up arms with the Americans...
...native Mandarin speaker play with a group of babies while speaking Chinese for 12 sessions of 25 minutes each over a four-week period. Later she tested the babies and was able to demonstrate that they recognized Mandarin sounds. But when she repeated the experiment with three control groups???one set of babies that saw the Chinese speaker play with babies on video, another that listened to an audio recording of the Chinese woman playing and a third that had no exposure to the Chinese speaker?none seem to perceive Mandarin sounds. Apparently, the presence of a living, breathing human...
...family. Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, the hard-liner who planned and directed the sweep into Lebanon, has even envisaged turning the country into a Phalangist-controlled state. Other Israeli officials, however, are more flexible and see the necessity for forming a broad coalition of all significant Lebanese political groups???including the Muslim leftists led by Walid Jumblatt, head of the so-called National Movement, which has been loosely allied with the P.L.O...
...forced to take more specific stands on issues about which he so far has been vague. Says New York Democrat Howard Samuels, a Carter supporter: "So far, Kennedy has been getting a free ride. He is carrying on his shoulders the uncompleted agendas of a collection of specific interest groups???blacks, the young, the poor, the working class. He can't satisfy them...
...spending and the inflation it breeds. Says Federal Reserve Board Chairman G. William Miller: "The best proof of his commitment [to trimming the budget] is that he can't get re-elected unless he deals with inflation." But if Carter cuts too sharply he will alienate many of the groups???liberals, minorities, labor?who supported him in '76. Senator Ted Kennedy, a potential Carter rival in 1980, has already threatened to fight any reductions in health appropriations. Anticipating an intraparty battle ahead, a Kennedy staffer warns: "There's going to be a lot of blood on the floor...