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International diplomacy is supposed to be President Bush's strength. But after Japan, and getting gassed in Panama last week, what could go wrong next? Might be prudent to avoid the Ring of Fire...
...helplessly as their troubled inner- city area, whose law-abiding residents had been pleading for better police protection for years, was pillaged and set aflame by hordes of looters. By all indications, the rioting could have been contained with proper planning, commitment of resources, leadership and an early and prudent show of force by the Los Angeles police. All these ingredients were tragically lacking in Los Angeles. The performance of the L.A.P.D. during the crucial early moments of the uprising is an object lesson in how not to deal with civil disorders. Key mistakes...
...Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III said that he felt the security may be warranted. "I don't have any information that it's necessary," he said. "I can't imagine that anyone would do anything against either organization, but it's always prudent...
Cutting down on beef consumption in protein-sated countries like the U.S. is a prudent prescription that would go a long way toward enhancing general health. Red meat is the primary source of saturated fat in the American diet, and too much dietary fat has been linked to the development of both heart disease and certain types of cancer. But trimming beef in the American diet, emphasizes Felicia Busch of the American Dietetic Association, "will not solve world hunger, and it isn't going to save our planet." The environmental cost of beef is just one aspect of the multiplying...
Perhaps history will rate Baker as the right man for the end of the cold war, a deft and prudent player of the good cards dealt him by the collapse of communism. But in a fragmented and challenging new world, American foreign policy needs a conceptual overhaul, the kind of coherent vision that it got in a simpler past from such men as Dean Acheson and George Kennan. A seat-of-the- pants approach to international relations, even one with its share of ! short-term successes, will not preserve American leadership...