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Humvees. Fighter planes. Swarms of the finest fighting professionals the Marines and the Navy can muster, staging an elaborately coordinated amphibious assault with deadly precision. So which military hot spot is this -- Baghdad? Tripoli? Actually, it's San Francisco. No, this is not William Cohen's preemptive strike against a reflorescence of the Summer of Love, it's a massive war games exercise scheduled to begin March 14 in the Bay Area that will involve 6,000 troops, five ships, helicopters and F-18 bombers. The maneuvers are intended to simulate warfare in a heavily populated urban area...
...Clinton, more Andrew Johnson than Richard Nixon, may decide that he might as well take his chances on the Senate floor, where the numbers are in his favor. The Constitution requires a two-thirds majority, or 67 votes, for removal from office, something Lott will be hard pressed to muster in a chamber with only 55 Republicans, several of them proudly moderate. With rules like that--and in the stately confines of the Senate--the odds may finally be in Clinton's favor...
...Barely two days after President Clinton met with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Clinton faces a snowballing impeachment movement and Netanyahu faces early elections, probably in the spring. The prime minister announced Wednesday that he would take his hard-line peace policies to the electorate if he could not muster support for them from the Knesset next Monday. Netanyahu's right wing is in shambles over how much hard line and how much peace there should be in those policies. "We're going to elections," predicted confidently dovish opposition Labor party leader Ehud Barak...
...proposal will be considered by SAC in January, and whether it will muster the two-thirds majority necessary to pass is, for now, anyone's guess...
...events on Friday, Harvard led with 225 points. UMass was a distant second with 76, UNH had 53 and CCSU could only muster...