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...future of civil rights may come within weeks as Congress prepares to send President Bush a flawed and cynical bill whose chief connection to civil rights lies in its eye-catching (and vote-winning) title. Bush should pronounce that legislation dead on arrival and use the opportunity to launch a new civil rights agenda that emphasizes empowerment--not handouts...
...demand that the University and the city immediately suspend its guard detail for the prince and launch a full investigation into the incident, severely disciplining those who stood by. Let Prince Turki use his oil billions to pay for a private security force...
Staff writers for the old The Subterranean Review, which ceased publication last year because of what one member described as a rightward swing in the student body, said yesterday that they are meeting with a new corps of campus leftists in an effort to launch a revamped version of the magazine...
Bush insisted he would not use Iraq's violation of diplomatic norms in Kuwait last week as a pretext to launch a military attack. That is not a real option yet; the U.S. commander in the gulf, General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, says shipments are behind schedule, and it will be a month before all the heavy armor en route is actually delivered. While its power builds, Washington intends to pursue the diplomatic and economic tracks until they have either visibly begun to strangle Saddam or been proved a failure. Meanwhile, Washington is debating some unsettled questions...
...wild claims about the effectiveness of proposed weapons systems. Now this liar's art has spread beyond Washington. A journalist back from the U.S.S.R. tells of Soviet military technicians who pitched a costly radar missile-tracking system to the Kremlin. On April 28, when the U.S. was scheduled to launch a space shuttle, the technicians triumphantly declared that the lift-off had been detected and tracked. Several hours later, NASA announced that the takeoff had been postponed...