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...antagonists even use the language of the battlefield. "Everybody's waiting in the trenches," said California Democratic Congressman Leon Panetta about impending votes on Capitol Hill. A White House aide sounded last week like a lecturer at a war college: "When we could pick where and when we wanted to fight, when we could direct set-piece campaigns in which we could mobilize all the White House resources, we never lost a major battle--tax cuts, budget, AWACS, MX missiles. In the past we used to fight one battle at a time in one House of Congress. Now we have...
...Africa, cut off nuclear trade, prohibit the sale of computers to government agencies and deny federal aid to the exports of nearly all U.S. companies with facilities there unless they obey what are known as the Sullivan principles. These are a set of six guidelines drafted by the Rev. Leon Sullivan, a director of General Motors and the Mellon Bank of Pittsburgh, that require companies to have integrated facilities, offer training programs for blacks and provide equal pay and treatment for both black and white employees...
...Staff writer Leon Neyfakh can be reached at neyfakh@fas.harvard.edu...
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...cell number, but Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is the chief bullet biter. That's why California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger buttonholed him at January's presidential Inauguration; the Golden State has 62 bases to protect. The Governator has also enlisted former Democratic Congressman and White House chief of staff Leon Panetta, who says, "Having a California Governor who campaigned for this President spells political power...