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EVERY YEAR since 1973, bills have been proposed to repeal or modify the War Powers Resolution. Not one has become law. The most recent effort to fix the flawed legislation was an amendment proposed by Sens. Robert, Byrd (D-Va.), Sam Nunn (D-Ga.), John Warner (R-Va.) and George Mitchell (D-Maine) in May 1988. The amendment would have made two major adjustments...
Wyche Fowler, Georgia. The brickbats tossed at Fowler and fellow Georgia Senator Sam Nunn for their peacenik stance are more likely to wound the folksy freshman. He's the one up for re-election, and he doesn't have Senator Sam's hawkish record...
...seems to have obliterated the nomination chances of Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Sam Nunn, who voted against force in the gulf, and raised those of Tennessee Senator Albert Gore, who was for it. Predicts Maryland state chairman and fund raiser Nathan Landow: "As things stand now, Gore has the best shot. The vote on the war was important." The irony is that his pro-war vote, a prerequisite for having a chance in the general election, could deny Gore his dovish party's bid. It is not lost on his colleagues that every time Gore defends their vote against...
Senator Sam Nunn (D-Ga.), who spearheaded the Senate effort to defeat the resolution, said on "Today" recently that he was only opposed to starting the ground war "prematurely." "I don't think they did prematurely start the ground war," Nunn said. But in the congressional hearings held before the war, Nunn had recommended that the president wait at least six months before committing...
...many a labor negotiation begins with exorbitant union demands and a skinflint management offer that both sides know perfectly well are a charade). The Baghdad announcement marks "the beginning of the endgame," said William Quandt, a former chief Middle East analyst at the National Security Council. Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, agreed: "In the Arab world, you always have to be prepared for bargaining, and this may be the opening gambit." And Saddam, for all his intense stubbornness, could reverse course overnight if that seems necessary or desirable. Witness his blithe return to Iran...