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...last week the Security Council finally passed a Franco-British resolution demanding that Milosevic halt his offensive and begin negotiations or face the possibility of armed intervention. The attack plan calls for U.S. cruise missiles to be launched first against Serb military targets in Kosovo; then, if needed, NATO would mount a wider air campaign outside Kosovo against security facilities in Serbia...
...meantime, Western Europe, the United States and NATO have not yet taken any effective action to halt the Serbians' grave violations of human rights or to help the hundreds of thousands of Kosovo Albanian refugees whose only shelter has been the open sky. We urge the Harvard community to take all possible effective action, as soon as possible, to help to avert disaster and to protect the Kosovo refugees, who are now exposed not only to the harshness of the Balkan winter, but also to Serbian attacks...
...party's social-conservative flank, meanwhile, is opposed to mercy on ideological grounds, determined that the President must be spanked and spanked hard. But if the G.O.P. drags Clinton's carcass around the arena too many more times, the favorable trend in the polls will come to an abrupt halt. And so the Speaker sits tight, sounding statesmanlike, careful not to overplay his hand. If the release of the videotape doesn't backfire this week, all he has to do is hang on through Election Day, betting that a bigger margin in the House next year will give him more...
...stop at Sudan and Afghanistan? The same strategy could be applied to halt the unpardonable killing of thousands of innocent citizens every year by drivers under the influence of alcohol. The bombing of a few strategically located "factories" where the production of alcohol is alleged to take place would send the message that such behavior will no longer be tolerated. HARRY K. ELDON Lethbridge, Alta...
...toward the sun, controllers are alternately charging the batteries and using them to warm SOHO's slushy on-board hydrazine fuel, which nearly froze during the craft's dormancy. The hydrazine, when fully thawed, will be used to fire thrusters in a series of brief burns. That procedure should halt SOHO's spin, stabilize the observatory and face its solar panels directly toward...