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...these reports are accurate -- and no one has ever claimed that Saddam % appreciates the untidiness of democracy -- then Baghdad undoubtedly took further comfort from the parade of skeptics counseling delay before Sam Nunn's Senate Armed Services Committee last week. Echoing other experts, a former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, David Jones, said that the economic embargo was "biting heavily" and that if the sanctions "work in 12 to 18 months . . . the trade-off of avoiding war with its attendant sacrifices and uncertainties would . . . be more than worth...
...York Gov. Mario Cuomo won in a possible prelude to a 1992 Democratic presidential campaign. Besides Bradley of New Jersey, two other potential challengers to President Bush won easy Senate reelection--Al Gore in Tennessee and Sam Nunn in Georgia...
...this call for a centrist agenda in the Democratic Party. Promising state-elected Democrats including Ann Richards of Texas, Dianne Feinstein of California and Andrew Young of Georgia have all embraced at least some of these centrist ideas. In addition, more established Democrats such as Georgia Sen. Sam Nunn, probable 1992 hopeful Sen. Lloyd Bentsen of Texas and Rep. Les Aspin of Wisconsin have made their careers by standing firmly in the center and ringing the bell for moderation...
...claimed -- that they did not confer any advance approval of a decision to fight. There has been talk of a resolution providing that Bush could order war only with the specific approval of the U.N., but nobody has introduced such a resolution yet. Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Sam Nunn observes that Congress's real power is the ability to shut off funds for a war. That seems theoretical, to put it mildly; can anyone seriously imagine Congress refusing American troops the money to buy the ammunition to return enemy fire...
...weaknesses of the War Powers Act is that it fails to specify who should be consulted or exactly when (Ronald Reagan informed Capitol Hill leaders of the impending U.S. air strike on Libya in 1986 only after the bombers were in the air and nearing their targets). Nunn would remedy that by setting up a bipartisan group that the President would be required to consult with regularly, including times when Congress is not in session. That provision could be important; the most widely repeated war scenario on the Washington rumor circuit calls for fighting to begin in mid-November -- during...