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Then, embarrassingly, there is the U.S. Constitution, which grants Congress the sole power to declare war, though it also makes the President the Commander in Chief of the armed forces and thus able to order them into harm's way. The debates over the constitutional status of an invasion of Haiti have been wildly distorted by partisanship. Democrats who insisted George Bush had to seek congressional approval to start the Persian Gulf War -- as he finally did, successfully -- contend that an invasion of Haiti would be a much smaller, less dangerous undertaking. Comparable, in fact, to the Reagan Administration invasion...
Predictably, attempts to whipsaw public opinion have already begun. Corporate lobbyists urge that action be put on hold until science resolves the unanswered questions. Environmentalists argue that evidence for harm is too strong to permit delay. The issue is especially tough because the chemicals under scrutiny are found almost everywhere.Since many of them contain chlorine or are by-products of processes involving chlorine compounds, the environmental group Greenpeace has demanded a ban on all industrial uses of chlorine. The proposal seems appealingly simple, but it would be economically wrenching for companies and consumers alike...
...this is a big but -- some species are more sensitive to dioxin than others. Just because rats and fish are affected in certain ways does not necessarily mean that humans will have comparable reactions. And doses that harm animals are not necessarily large enough to damage people. On the other hand, humans soak up many different chemicals, and the results may be cumulative...
...call made to police the night of July 27. A young woman is phoning for help from her apartment in Fuquay-Varina, about 15 miles from Raleigh. Just before the tape goes dead -- police believe the phone was ripped from the wall -- she can be heard screaming, "Don't harm my baby!" Jackson knows what happened next. Over the next several minutes she was beaten bloody with a mop handle and raped. The attacker was a neighbor who had apparently become infatuated with her. The woman, who survived, is 22. The accused rapist, Andre Green...
...draft a bill that could get a filibuster-proof 60 votes. But in nearby chambers, Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., pronounced the effort dead. Key Democrats weren't much jollier: Senate Finance Committee chairman Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., has said the Chafee bill would harm Medicare and Medicaid. And Sen. Bob Kerrey, the Nebraska Democrat now often at odds with President Clinton, waxed cynical, saying the public fears "we're going to cook a deal in the last three or four weeks of Congress . . . to get re-elected...