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...cowboy try to rope a tornado [GLOBAL AGENDA, July 1]. Elliott's insistence that some definable rules should apply to this doctrine was an amusingly arrogant demand for intellectual control. But the U.S. is facing an acute life-or-death situation in which it needs no formal doctrine to permit a first strike against those who wish to kill us. For Elliott to warn that our prerogative to strike pre-emptively without a neat list of rules invites "international anarchy" is to advocate suicide. It's like saying "Give me order, or give me death!" PATRICK DOLLARD Beverly Hills, Calif...
...officer filed a report at Weld Hall where a person was selling magazines without a permit...
...officer filed a report at Matthews Hall where a person was selling magazines without a permit...
...last time the court considered the question of executing the retarded was in Penry's case in 1989. At that time just two states, Georgia and Maryland, forbade it. Now 18 do--almost half the number, 38, that permit capital punishment. In the majority opinion he wrote last week, John Paul Stevens called that a "dramatic shift in the state legislative landscape." Antonin Scalia, who wrote for the dissenters--Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Clarence Thomas were the other two--declared that the majority's decision rested upon nothing but "the personal views of its members...
...because Mr Arafat does not want to end terrorism or because he cannot do so, another Oslo Agreement is not on the cards. Therefore Israel's one salvation is to get out and build a wall - a wall so high not even the birds can fly over it - and permit the Palestinians to establish their state on the other side of it, as the Saudi peace plan suggests? Few terrorists succeed in breaking through the security fence that surrounds the Gaza Strip. In fact the only reason why Israel still faces problems in that part of the country is because...