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Armed guerrillas roam at will throughout Jordan. The guerrillas act as their own police, and Jordanian police are powerless to do anything but go along with them. Hussein, in a postbattle press conference last week in the royal cinema of his Basman Palace in Amman, vowed that he would not abdicate. "I am not the type of person who can quit," he said. "This nation is part of me and I am part of it." But the King rules at the pleasure of the fedayeen, and his throne rests on the will of Fedayeen Leader Yasser Arafat as much...
...prediction has already been confirmed in embarrassing ways. Early this month, after mustering power-company executives to discuss the problem, New York State's Public Service Commission in Albany found itself literally powerless: a nearby transformer had failed. Shortly afterward, 2,500 leaders of the electric-utility industry were figuratively shocked at a conference in Boston when seven major turbines went out of service, causing all New England to lose 5% of its power supply...
Congress is still a pretty good cross section of the country. From the far-left liberals to the Neanderthal conservatives, they represent the best and the worst in the American people. Unfortunately, like the American people, Congress is divided. confused, powerless, and lazy. They would just as soon stick with the status...
...appears that the Strike Steering Committee considers the mass meetings to be a powerless debating forum serving an advisory function...
...discovered five days ago that the Pentagon is secretly supplying $20 million in surplus military stock above and beyond the $25 million in military aid authorized by Congress this year. Optimists would have us believe that America is a democratic society when even our own elected representatives are powerless to do anything about the crimes the U. S. military commits abroad...