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BECAUSE OF economic realities, the days when the U.S. can act unilaterally are over. In fact, as Hoffmann put it, "no single nation will be capable of playing world policeman" in the '90s. Still, there must be a united force (most logically, of course, the U.N.) which can effectively stop future Saddams. And this force must be prepared to negotiate workable solutions for cases less clear-cut than Iraq's invasion. Most important, this force must be prepared to enforce those solutions...
Much in the style of Liberia's late President Samuel Doe, Siad Barre, a onetime policeman who seized power in a military coup in 1969, sealed his own fate by depending more and more on his kinsmen and overreacting to any challenge to his autocratic rule. Former U.S. diplomat Chester Crocker, a professor at Georgetown University, calls Siad Barre an "old-style, feudal, tribal chieftain." The country is ethnically homogeneous -- 98.8% are Somalis -- so there are no significant tribal hatreds. But its 8 million people are split into rival clans that have been battling one another for centuries...
Henri Troyat, a member of the prestigious French Academy, charged that the omission would "disfigure the soul of a word." Book editor Yves Berger bemoaned the loss "of this marvelous chapeau de gendarme ((policeman's hat))." The brouhaha grew worse over the past two weeks as more members of the academy openly broke with the majority who voted for Rocard's reform last May, and it is possible they may force another vote. The academy will discuss the issue at its Thursday meeting this week, and if it recants, the government will have to think again...
...several of us did in fact sit on the steps, which was perfectly within our rights to do. After being rudely told to leave by a rally organizer, we asked to see the permit which they cited as justification for our removal. As later verified by the Harvard University policeman present at the rally, the permit only gave the group the right to assemble a large crowd on the steps of the church...
Like a Ninja Turtle conceived in disaster and destined for greatness, Schwarzenegger was born in the rubble of the Third Reich's defeat, in the Austrian village of Thal. His father was a policeman, his mother a housekeeper, and they lived in a house that had no toilet or refrigerator until he was 14. Could it have been such mean circumstances that gave Arnold an edge? He thinks so. "Today in America," he says, "I see kids comfortable, getting everything they want, peaceful minds, no hang-ups. And I realize that stability will never create the hunger it takes...