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Leverett Towers are topped with rows of white triangular shapes, which some call kites and others insist are golf tees. No one seems to know their purpose--one Leverett House custodian suggested they were only for decoration...
...report, disclosed in The New York Times today, concludes that China has recently delivered key components of missile systems to Iran and Pakistan in violation of an international arms accord.TIME diplomatic correspondent Dean Fischerreports that State Department officials insist they have known about the worrisome shipments for some time. (Some details also surfaced earlier this week in the Washington-based Defense News.) While U.S. officials may simply want to send China a public warning through the press, Fischer says, the move may also be calculated to counter criticism of President Clinton for jeopardizing relations with China byallowing the president...
...yourselves, because you haven't given me the resources to do it.' " Even more than that, Boutros-Ghali wants the U.N. to return to traditional peacekeeping. Since there is no peace to keep in Bosnia, Option 3 has the force of logic behind it, but London, Paris and Washington insist on retaining the U.N. label. Without it they would turn into a multinational army at war with the Serbs...
McPeak dismisses the gospel of his former fellow Joint Chieftains, who insist that retreating from a two-war strategy would tempt troublemakers once U.S. troops were pinned down in the first conflict. "Not true," he insists. "If the adversary sees the U.S. keeping its commitment somewhere, it deters the second. Nobody in the world is anxious to fight the U.S. if they judge that we are serious." McPeak acknowledges that the Clinton Administration's shaky relations with the military make it unlikely that this Administration would push to replace the two-war strategy with a more modest pledge, although...
...thirds of both Houses needed to send a constitutional amendment to the states for approval, backers would have to replace or win over 63 House members and, at last count, at least 24 Senators. Yet advocates like Cleta Mitchell, director of the Term Limits Legal Institute, insist their enthusiasm is abiding. Says she: "I've always considered this a marathon rather than a sprint...