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...south. Chalabi wants to train about 500 exile intelligence operatives, who would first infiltrate Iraq. They would be followed by 5,000 U.S.-trained Iraqi guerrillas, who would seize territory under U.S. air cover and encourage demoralized Iraqi army units to defect to their cause. Democratic Senator Bob Kerrey would take U.S. support a step further. Containing Saddam with sanctions and almost weekly aerial attacks against his sam batteries "has failed," Kerrey argues. "I favor committing U.S. ground forces and air forces" to topple the dictator...
...Nebraska Democratic Senator Bob Kerrey, whose Medal of Honor citation was signed by Chafee
...been made clear to me that the things I say about Bradley that are nice are heard in Gore's office," says Delaware's Joe Biden, who may endorse Bradley. Biden isn't sweating, and the threats haven't kept Senators Paul Wellstone of Minnesota and Bob Kerrey of Nebraska from endorsing him, but other Senators feel the heat. "There is a clear message that there shouldn't be a primary," says a staff member for a Senator who has already told Gore he will support him. According to Biden, since Gore launched his campaign, some Senators have sensed that...
...Senate bill written by Democrats Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York and Robert Kerrey of Nebraska would allow workers to divert 2% into investment accounts but would lower guaranteed benefits to what could be financed out of the remaining 10.4%. Feldstein has an even better idea: keep present tax and benefit rates but have the government deposit into individual accounts an additional 2% of each worker's earnings, up to the prescribed annual taxable limit. On retirement the worker would repay Uncle Sam $3 of every $4 he or she had in the account. Taxpayers under this scheme might earn...
...Committee. But the Senators came out of the three-hour meeting irate. The most overheated Republicans compared Lee to Klaus Fuchs, the Los Alamos scientist who passed atomic secrets to the Soviets in the 1940s. Even Democrats raged. "It's not even a close call," said Nebraska Democrat Bob Kerrey. "This is an extremely serious national-security issue that was not given a sufficient amount of attention...