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...military intervention is no game for the squeamish. If Democrats are scared to take a stand against interventionism in Central America, then they should give Reagan whatever he wants and let him accept the consequences. "Compromises" just prolong the violence, raising the death toll and possibly leaving a mess for a Democratic president to clean up. Sooner or later, someone has to take the heat for pulling out of E1 Salvador and Nicaragua, and Democrats should have learned by now that decisions like this cannot be postponed forever...
...debate that already swirls around almost every aspect of this subject. The one issue involved on which there is a semblance of agreement is the definition of death. Traditionally, a person had been considered medically and legally dead when his heart and lungs stopped. Today, however, machines can prolong these visible signs of life even after the brain has ceased to function. The standards for determining "brain death," set forth by a 1968 Harvard Medical School report on irreversible coma, are now widely accepted among medical professionals. Thirty-one states and the District of Columbia have brain-death statutes...
...Administration in spelling out conditions that the Salvadoran government would have to meet in order to get the aid. For example, they say, the government must offer amnesty to guerrillas who join in the voting and guarantee their safety. An unconditional increase in U.S. aid, the critics argue, would prolong the fighting and possibly trap the U.S. in a Viet Nam-style quagmire...
...Morris Draper, who is also taking part in the talks, declared last week that the U.S. supported Israel's "legitimate security interests" as well as Lebanon's "sovereignty and independence." But Washington generally favors the Lebanese position. The Reagan Administration fears that wide-ranging discussions would merely prolong the crisis in Lebanon and would prevent the U.S. from making any headway on President Reagan's Sept. 1 peace plan, which calls for a future association between Jordan and the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip...
...whole run seemed to occur in slow motion--as though. Stafford deliberately plowed along in order to prolong the suspense. Crimson cornerback John Daily finally stopped him at the Dartmouth 30-exactly at the point of the first down...