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...President -- oil, aggression and cynicism about sanctions -- turned into a footnote once Congress voted; what mattered was that at last proper constitutional norms had been followed. How easy it had been during Vietnam (a war mounted under the dubious fig leaf of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution) to reject personal complicity in the carnage. Blame, as I do, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger for the names on the wailing wall in Washington. But today, for the first time in my life, I freely accept, as an American citizen, responsibility for a war and the terrible human suffering that...
...battle. Yet virtually no one wants to rescind the budget deal and thereby widen the menacing federal deficit. While the Senate Budget Committee debated a resolution last week to roll back the agreement and halt the burdensome tax increases in light of the recession, lawmakers voted 21-0 to reject the proposal...
...pieces across the Urals into Soviet Asia to spare them from the destruction required under the pact. Economist V. Litov, an international-affairs specialist, wrote in the conservative daily Sovietskaya Rossiya that the moves were needed to "correct the errors" of Shevardnadze's diplomacy. Litov called on legislators to reject the conventional-arms treaty. But Soviet diplomats were aghast. Said the liberal paper Moscow News: "The situation has given rise to understandable fears in the West about who is in charge...
...third suggestion, the Overpowering Assumption, I think, is best. Best not for the reasons he suggests--that the assumption is so cosmic that it might be accepted. It is rarely "accepted;" we aren't here to accept or reject, we're here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay it is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we all like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret...
...Kuwaiti officials reject compromise under which Iraq would pull troops out of most of Kuwait. Oil prices drop below $30 a barrel. Iraqi forces in Kuwait wire emirate's oil refineries with plastic explosives...