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...last thing an airline passenger wants is a pilot whose head is in the clouds. The Supreme Court last week reduced the likelihood of getting one when it let stand a Federal Aviation Administration rule requiring a "comprehensive antidrug program" -- random, unannounced urine tests. The action affects more than half a million workers in the air-travel industry, including flight crews and air-traffic controllers...
...reject the option of a cease-fire. To foreclose this possibility and demand complete surrender as an alternative to any peace % negotiations, even after Saddam's expressed willingness to withdraw from Kuwait is confirmed, is to ensure a long and destructive war, a fragmentation of the alliance and the likelihood of a destabilized Middle East. Complete destruction of Iraq's army will leave the country defenseless against Iran and Syria. If we insist also that Saddam face trial as a war criminal, then he is not likely to yield except as an act of finality and hopelessness, regardless...
Assad's contibution to the war effort has been minimal at best, and there is little likelihood that Syrian troops will see significant combat against the Iraqis...
...easily detected in the babble of a political campaign. For 5 1/ 2 months Bush went down a straight road to battle. There have been no black moods for Bush as there were for John F. Kennedy in the Cuban missile crisis when he believed there was a likelihood of a nuclear exchange. Nor has Bush wandered through the darkened White House as Lyndon Johnson used to do, as much confused by his own experts as by his enemies in Vietnam. Richard Nixon sometimes sought solitude and brooded for hours over decisions on using $ American power. Bush sought out friends...
Considering that the strength of student views would strongly affect their likelihood of returning the survey, these 675 cannot be assumed to reflect the same proportions as those who answered...