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...years Sam Nunn, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has been advocating what he calls a "limited-protection system." Last week the Senate endorsed that goal. The gung-ho SDI enthusiasts don't like the scheme because they believe, correctly, that Nunn doesn't want Brilliant Pebbles to get off the ground. On the other side are arms-control purists who see the ABM treaty as holy writ and fear it can't survive any tinkering...
Senate confirmation for a second term as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is a virtual certainty, but COLIN POWELL can expect some uncomfortable moments along the way. Several members of the Armed Services Committee, led by Georgia's Sam Nunn, recognize Powell as a primary source for Bob Woodward's controversial book The Commanders. The Senators will ask the general whether he truly preferred economic sanctions to war against Iraq, as the book claims, and whether it was appropriate for him to disclose the confidential advice he gave to the President...
...politics, however, you just carry on, trusting to the short memory of the audience. Well, maybe not this time. For once, an issue was settled. For once, the vaunted sagacity of Sam Nunn, the angry isolationism of Pat Buchanan, the "street"-smart Arabism of the Middle East experts have been put to the test: an encounter with reality. The results are not pretty, and the tested don't like...
...logical choice right now is Gore. While the Gulf War will not decide the '92 election, it will be important. Since Gore voted to grant Bush war powers in January--a vote that has gained enough symbolic value to make a 1992 bid impossible for Mr. Sanctions, Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.)--he can neutralize charges that Democrats would have appeased Saddam Hussein...
Lawmakers must introduce a bill along the lines of the Byrd-Nunn amendment to make the War Powers Resolution do what it set out to do prevent presidents from unilaterally bringing the United States into war. Allowing presidents to make war singlehandedly--though it may have worked in Bush's Operation Desert Storm--is an extremely dangerous precedent. As the Founders warned, and as Vietnam confirmed, a decision to go to war is too important and for too risky for one person to make...