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...Baghdad's art galleries hang heartrending depictions of slaughter, ruin and misery, painted since the Gulf War. On the sidewalks, poor families sell their meager household goods to procure enough money to eat. In the back alleys, women offer their bodies for sale -- an extreme act of desperation in Muslim society -- and men steal cars or rob their neighbors' houses...
...wrote Justice Hugo Black. "This seems to us to be an obvious truth." Over the next two decades the court expanded the protection to apply to all criminal cases and stressed that the representation must be "effective." But today, as defenders of indigents handle a flood of cases with meager resources, the debate rages on whether the promise of Gideon has been fulfilled...
...meager supplies have kept the besieged alive -- barely -- amid the ruins of their city. Intensive shelling has left few roofs and windows intact. Rockets still regularly slam into the streets, but Gorazde's citizens are holding firm. They hope that help is coming. But so far, the C-130 transport planes droning over Gorazde have been destined for others. "The mountain trail can satisfy only 5% of our needs," says Gorazde Mayor Hadzo Efendic. And the airdrop? "The world has attached much pomp to that," he says...
...like him, were banished by Israel to southern Lebanon seven weeks ago. Now, said Rantisi, the group's spokesman, the Israelis were inviting each of them to appeal in person for the right to return. Would they comply? he asked the exiles huddled on a hillside near their meager tent camp. Was there an alternative to their demand for unconditional repatriation? The answer came back crisp and loud...
...there is no general military staff, no single body mapping contingency plans and no standing military force that can be deployed quickly. "If the U.S., as a superpower, has discovered that it cannot be a global cop, how can we expect that role of the Secretary-General, with his meager resources?" asks a British diplomat. Despite persistent problems for the U.N. around the world, and his personal abrasiveness, Boutros-Ghali has shown that the organization can play a constructive, perhaps ultimately even decisive, role in the quest for peace. What he needs is for member nations to set reasonable goals...