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Ahead as well lay the uncertain prospect of American casualties -- losses that could further envenom what was already a passionate post-cold war debate. The verbal battle over invasion was at bottom a difference of opinion over whether Haiti was worth any American deaths at all, whether they occurred during an invasion or in an attempt to police an unruly and often violent country. It also touched on a perennial national anxiety: when and under what circumstances the U.S. should ever use military force abroad...
Shouldn't the temporary or perhaps permanent loss of such ambitious and energetic talents be a cause of concern? Is the U.S. in danger of becoming in a possible future some weird, post-cold war colony, exporting its raw and not- so-raw material -- its educated young people -- and not even getting paid in return...
Bowing to the realities of the post-Cold War era, giant defense contractors Lockheed and Martin Marietta announced they will merge in a $10 billion deal. The new company, to be called Lockheed Martin, will become the Pentagon's biggest supplier. In April two other other defense companies, Northrop and Grumman, said they were merging. While the deal still must clear anti-trust laws, government objections are unlikely, says TIME Pentagon Correspondent Mark Thompson. "Just last year the Pentagon and Department of Justice did a review of the defense industry and concluded that consolidations were natural," says Thompson. "They paved...
After 18 months in the job, Woolsey increasingly finds himself fighting a surprising new band of domestic foes: lawmakers and other espionage experts who feel that the nation's spymaster has yet to prove he can retool U.S. intelligence for the post-cold war world. Woolsey is coming under growing attack for being too reluctant to cut his share of America's $28 billion annual intelligence budget and too slow to bring diversity to the spy ranks. The spotlight on the agency increased last week after TIME reported that more than 100 of the CIA's female case officers have...
...eyes of the Western world, Vladimir Zhirinovsky is a loudmouth megalomaniac somewhere between Benito Mussolini and Archie Bunker. Rising from the murk of obscurity in post-Cold War Soviet politics, Zhirinovsky pulled himself out of the depths with threaRTLĂ„o restore Russia's imperial borders, retake Alaska, partition Poland and even employ large fans to blow radioactive waste across Russia and into the Baltic states. Such threats had become trademark Zhirinovsky moves, ignored by many. But since last December when Zhirinovsky's Liberal Democratic Party captured 25% of the vote in the party preference poll, Russian liberals...