Word: lott
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WASHINGTON--Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) said yesterday he finds it curious that the White House is moving toward military action in Kosovo just before the November election. He said neither the American public nor Congress would support sending American ground troops to the area...
...Lott said Serbian forces appear to be withdrawing under threat of a NATO strike and asked why, in "what appears will be three weeks before an election, we are going to go in and bomb some artillery tubes inside Kosovo...
...said he has been backing aggressive action against Serbia since last March, but the administration and NATO have done nothing. "The genocide has been taking place. The damage has been done," Lott said. "Now and only now they prepare to take serious action. I think that is curious...
...Lott, also on ABC, said the administration has not prepared for such contingencies...
...censure option, which the White House is not yet ready to accept, is growing fast among Democrats in Congress, especially the ones who face re-election. Cautiously triumphant Republicans are in no mood to let the President off the hook that fast. When Senate majority leader Trent Lott said last week that he didn't think censure was enough, he was signaling that no quick end was in sight...