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...Soviets have launched some three dozen nuclear satellites over the past two decades. Altogether they contain almost 3,500 lbs. of radioactive fuel. The only way to halt that proliferation would be to make space nukes an issue in U.S.-Soviet arms-control talks. Warns Brown: "If we don't stop the use of nuclear-power sources traveling over our heads, we're likely to wake up one day with a nuclear reactor landing on our heads...
Afghanistan's only hope for a halt to the savagery rests with the shura, or consultative council, that convened in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi last Friday. The 526-member council is composed of representatives from the seven- party mujahedin alliance that operates out of Pakistan and the eight mujahedin parties based in Iran. Their aim is to designate an interim - government that would supplant the Najibullah regime. But last week's meeting, attended by 420 delegates, gave little cause for optimism. The council's session lasted just 40 minutes, then disintegrated into chaos over the question of just...
...chemicals seized in Colombia, however, most of the batch numbers on labels had been scratched off by knife blades. Given how successful drug lords have been in using a dizzying tangle of middlemen and front companies to hide their activities, law enforcement officials may never be able to halt fully the chemical side of the drug trade...
...sharp contrast to Reagan's stiff-necked philosophic rigidity, Bush was eager to touch every point on the ideological spectrum. He honored, with lip service at least, most of his kinder and gentler campaign promises, ranging from a pledge to halt offshore drilling in California to advocacy of extended health care for pregnant women and children. Bush courted environmentalists (by pledging an end to acid rain and toxic dumping) and borrowed lines from Jesse Jackson ("Keep hope alive"), while still echoing themes from the Reagan years ("growth and opportunity" and "family and faith") and bowing at the shrine...
Controversy over the merits of CLS--which holds that the law is skewed to reflect the existing distribution of economic wealth--has divided the faculty in recent years, often bringing the tenure process to a halt. Left-wing, right-wing and moderate professors have aligned themselves in hostile camps, with Clark leading the criticism of the radical scholars...