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...presence in the Persian Gulf to deter Iraq from someday invading Kuwait or Saudi Arabia. He helped shape the hard-line Reagan-era policies toward the Soviet Union that conservatives credit with ending the cold war. In 1990 he called for pre-emptive strikes against enemy states trying to obtain weapons of mass destruction--precisely the shift in U.S. strategy that the Administration announced last fall. But other proposals by Wolfowitz have been dismissed as reckless--such as his suggestion during the first Bush Administration that the U.S. send troops to Lithuania if Moscow tried to block the republic...
...stand oblique to the current of public opinion on the environment, allowing criticism to slide off his back. His lieutenants in Interior, Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have quietly focused on the regulatory route, using administrative guidance and legal loopholes to achieve what Gingrich could not obtain in the full glare of the legislative process. "They are rejecting the full-frontal-assault approach that gets a lot of media attention in favor of death by a thousand strokes of the pen," contends Stoermer. The Republicans are also learning how to spin environmental issues in their direction...
...same time, 60% of those polled said it has become too easy to obtain an abortion, which helps explain why opponents have been so effective in nibbling at the edges of the abortion question. Ever since a 1992 Supreme Court decision, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, opened the door for states to impose greater limits on the right to an abortion, activists have taken up the fight state by state, measure by measure. In the past seven years, 335 new restrictions have been put on the books around the country, according to NARAL. Most common are parent-notification laws, required waiting...
...members discussed ways to obtain and share information more effectively with current and prospective international students, Casey says...
...after nine years of living in the United States, he returned for a week to Sudan to obtain a British visa...