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...talks, and the U.S. is demanding that an exception be made to allow it to continue using mines on the border between North and South Korea. Also, the Pentagon wants a major exception that would permit the military to continue intermingling antipersonnel mines with antitank mines to prevent enemy troops from approaching and easily disabling the larger mines. Clinton's decision to join the Ottawa process came abruptly, less than a week after the Pentagon was patiently explaining that the U.S. wouldn't join because the talks "do not involve other countries that have huge inventories and which actually export...
...expose the scientists on the other side as charlatans or proponents of "junk" theories. In 1993, however, the Supreme Court ruled in Daubert v. Merrell Dow that judges should act as gatekeepers, assessing the validity of the experts who take their stand. "Before Daubert, judges were unwilling to prevent testifying," says Joseph Sanders, a University of Houston law professor. "Now they're more willing to exclude experts." The results are dramatic, even pivotal, in cases involving breast implants. Last year Judge Robert Jones of Oregon used the findings of his own panel of scientists to exclude the plaintiffs' evidence...
Krauthammer is mistaken. If Israel backs away from the negotiating table now, the terrorists will have achieved their objective: interrupting the peace process. No one expects Israel to ignore terrorism or cease attempting to prevent it. But by suspending the peace talks, Israel will ensure that any effort to resume the negotiations will again be met with violence. If the talks continue, however, the terrorists' acts will be rendered futile. Negotiating with terrorists is "obscene," as Krauthammer says, but it is far better than a full retreat, which would mean the terrorists win. JONATHAN FONTENOT Lake Charles...
...Giuliani in New York and Richard Riordan in Los Angeles. The largest national police group supported President Clinton for re-election after he promised federal funding for more cops and a blazing war against drugs. In such an atmosphere it is easy to accept the notion that tough cops prevent crime...
...back to his first gubernatorial campaign, slowing down to fill in some background before taking off with his infamous 1963 inaugural speech: "Segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever!" From here the film whirls through key moments in Wallace's career: blocking the door at the University of Alabama to prevent two black students from entering; ordering the use of tear gas and billy clubs to oppose Martin Luther King's march from Selma; and falsely blaming Black Muslims for the 1963 church bombing in Birmingham that killed four young girls. Frankenheimer is particularly adept at capturing the mayhem Wallace causes...