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...birth control. If abortion is clearly wrong -- and it is -- the way to begin preventing abortions is to encourage contraception. Contraception sinlessly heads off the unwelcome pregnancy that might occasion the sin of abortion, that is, the destruction of rudimentary life. Only abstracted celibates and moral neurotics (I think) insist that a pill or condom contravenes the divine design for sex. On the contrary, contraception is an act of moral responsibility perfectly consistent with marital virtue and family cohesion...
...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 of Grenada and George Bush's pre-Kuwait invasion of Panama...
Party strategists give the same poor reading to the convention's major no- show, Jack Kemp, who once seemed likely to be the torchbearer of the Republican right. In their view it has been a mistake for Kemp to insist that the G.O.P. must reach out to minorities. "We've got to repeal the old Southern strategy of the 1960s and 1970s," says Kemp. "We need a new strategy based on asking black and minority men and women to vote Republican -- and give them a reason to vote Republican." However laudable, that's not a message to win the hearts...
Parizeau makes ridiculous almost real claims. He promised that if Quebec were to separate, it would not pay its entire share of the Canadian debt. But at the same time, it would insist that the Canadian government live up to its commitment to subsidize Quebec and potential hosting of the Olympics in the year...
...toughest missions: they were the ones ordered into risky ventures like nabbing Aidid. "When the U.S. commits significant numbers of troops to an operation," Flournoy says, "it must be prepared to play more than a supporting role and to be held accountable for the results." In Haiti, officials insist, U.S. troops will play a minimal role after the invasion -- but Americans could make up as much as half of that postinvasion force...