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...system is implemented through the husc8 and husc9 paths of the HASCS system. Users enter the IRC system by typing "warirc" at the husc prompt. Then they enter one of the two forums by typing "/INFO" or "/DISCUSS", which connect the user with the information line and the discussion line, respectively...
...only member of Congress who deviated from the "no draft, no how" pledge last week was Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.), chair of the Senate Armed Forces Committee, whose aides cited several news programs on which Nunn said that a war lasting several months would prompt discussion of the draft...
...region. An Iraqi-Israeli battle, for example, would entail massive violations of Jordanian airspace, confronting King Hussein with a critical dilemma. Diplomatic sources say Jordan and Israel have held secret contacts to clarify their positions. Israeli officials, who are acutely aware that any confrontation with Jordan could prompt Syrian intervention, stress that Israel will strike Jordanian air defenses only if Israeli planes are first attacked by King Hussein's jets. For now, Israeli strategists assume that King Hussein will lie low. Given the sympathy for Iraq among Jordanians, that might not be easy...
...delicate position as it tries to bolster Gorbachev's standing at the very moment when the Soviet President seems to be retreating from democratic reform. "I want perestroika to succeed," Bush declared flatly. But Shevardnadze acknowledged a "certain instability" in Soviet society, igniting fears that a bad winter could prompt a retreat to more authoritarian tactics. Gorbachev recently appointed hard-liner Boris Pugo as Interior Minister and enlisted the KGB to crack down on black marketeers, whom some in the West view as the Soviet Union's fledgling entrepreneurs...
These exhortations might prompt outsiders to ask, like the Meryl Streep character in Postcards from the Edge, "Do you always talk in bumper stickers?" But expressions like "one day at a time" and "higher power" are the not-so-secret passwords of our times...