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...military bars its troops from actively participating in groups pushing racist or other antisocial aims, but Pentagon officials concede the First Amendment guarantee of free speech and assembly restricts their ability to halt membership in such outfits. Police reportedly found "resistance magazines" among Burmeister's belongings. Fort Bragg is home to the Special Forces Underground, a clandestine group that publishes the Resister, a newsletter that espouses the extreme positions that proliferate among right-wing militias. In a recent policy statement, the Underground announced its opposition to "liberalism, altruism, internationalism, tribalism, democracy ... [and] the ideologies of all tyrannies." The role...
...works project. A highway was too narrow to handle the increasing flow of traffic, so the authorities brought in heavy equipment to widen it. Partway through the job, however, a road-leveling tractor uncovered the opening to a cave no one knew was there. Work came to an immediate halt, and within hours a scientific swat team descended on the site to study...
...recommendations will be forwarded to the Faculty Council, which can decide to endorse those recommendations and send a proposal to the full Faculty, halt formal consideration of the issue or request that a faculty discussion on the issue be held...
...Bosnia, Europe's bloodiest conflict since the Second World War, has come to a halt. As many as 200,000 people have been slain in this brutal conflict, and two million more have lost their homes. Even more disturbing than these grim statistics is the character of the brutalies of the war. Systematic executions of civilians, mass rapes and concentration camps--atrocities that the continent had hoped it had left behind forever--belied the west's hopes for a brighter future after the Cold War. This optimism may now have a new lease in the wake of the Bosnian peace...
...Clinton hopes to win the support of a skeptical Congress. He was to begin his selling job to an equally suspicious nation this Monday with a televised speech. The arguments he and Vice President Al Gore will use to sway Congress and the public center on the need to halt a bloody and destabilizing war in Europe, to maintain U.S. leadership in the world and to play its role in the forefront of nato, lest the alliance fall apart. To help push the proposal, Administration officials will emphasize their promise that U.S. troops will remain in Bosnia for only about...