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...attempts to restore Iraq by forcing democracy down Iraqis' throats, using coercion and military occupation. Notwithstanding Rice's and the Administration's claim that the insurgency is coming under control, the body count keeps rising daily, with no end in sight for the quagmire in Iraq. Ralph Kress La Mesa, California, U.S. Your article said Rice's becoming the "running mate for the Republican presidential nominee in 2008 ... will depend largely on whether she can find a way for the U.S. to declare victory in Iraq before support for the Bush doctrine, at home and abroad, runs out." How many...
...surely meet fierce opposition from the Pentagon. The military, with support from the major weapons-research laboratories, wants to continue experimenting with its modernized nuclear arsenal, particularly technology that might be used to implement the President's Strategic Defense Initiative. Last Saturday at an under ground site in Pahute Mesa, Nev., northwest of Las Vegas, the U.S. exploded a device (code-named Goldstone) designed to channel the energy of a nuclear blast into a concentrated, powerful beam of X-rays that could knock out a missile or warhead. Indeed, it may have been the Soviets' fear of SDI that pushed...
...initiated by Sisters Mary Paul and Geraldine, and we were delighted to see your story about them. While readers will find your coverage interesting and enlightening, we believe the piece does not begin to suggest the depth, intensity and total commitment of the sisters. Nettie and Herman Frank La Mesa, Calif...
...RESIGNED. CARLOS MESA, 51, President of Bolivia; after nearly a month of protests by the country's indigenous majority; in La Paz, Bolivia. The demonstrations, which call for the nationalization of the country's natural gas reserves to prevent exploitation by foreign companies, have closed airports in the nation and cut off food and fuel supplies to its major cities. Mesa, whose predecessor resigned in 2003 following protests over the government's energy policy, warned that "the country is on the verge of civil war." He has been succeeded by Supreme Court Chief Justice Eduardo Rodriguez...
...assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots. Take good care of them." Conant sees the place partly through the eyes of Dorothy McKibbin, a local woman who managed the tiny Santa Fe office that channeled new arrivals to the growing but highly secret enclave on a desert mesa outside of town. To get at the intrigues of Los Alamos through McKibbin is at times like trying to figure out Hamlet by way of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. But by moving frequently beyond the things McKibbin could know, Conant ends up providing an entertaining picture of day-to-day life...