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...editorial "The Lone Ranger" on December 5 accuses President Bush of violating the Constitution by not getting formal Congressional approval for his policies in the Persian Gulf. This accusation both lacks legal grounding and harms the prospect of achieving our goal of a peaceful resolution of this conflict...
...addition, the Navy said yesterday it was sending three aircraft carriers--the USS Theodore Roosevelt, USS America and USS Ranger--to the gulf area. That would increase to six the number of U.S. carriers there. The United States has 14 carriers, of which 12 are ready to be deployed...
...there is another George Bush, one whose favorite word is "prudence." He is less sanguine than Dugan about the efficacy of "surgical" strikes and less confident than Kissinger that the U.S. can both lead a posse and play the Lone Ranger. This Bush is also the Great Schmoozer. He prefers consensus to confrontation. He not only values his relationships with foreign leaders but actually listens to them. Most are counseling patience. An aide says that the President has been especially impressed by the cautions of Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady of the Falklands. She believes the embargo should be given...
...scarred. Long after the last truck has pulled out, heavy with logs, and the debris has been torched, what remains is a blackened earth, pockmarked and studded with tombstone-like stumps. "It looks like Alamogordo, as if it's been nuked," concedes Dan Schindler, a Forest Service district ranger...
...unabated. Efforts to find a solution were thwarted by the power of the timber industry, the bungling and inertia of the federal bureaucracy and the stridency of an environmental movement as quick to alienate as to persuade. But the conflict should never have reached the current crisis point. Forest ranger Schindler believes the coming economic turmoil might have been averted if the Government had weaned industry from its dependence on old growth by gradually reducing the level of harvesting. Instead the industry has been allowed to enjoy record harvests in recent years...