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...Senators have been expressing grave concern about the state of the nation's military strength. Armed with volumes of facts and statistics, they have convinced a growing number of citizens that the U.S. can no longer afford to postpone tough and costly defense decisions if it intends to remain a superpower. As a result, a consensus has been emerging that favors a stronger U.S. military establishment, something that would have seemed impossible only a few years ago. Badly?and unfairly?scarred by the Viet Nam War, the armed services were forced into a period of retrenchment, receiving little popular backing...
...depend on the faculty members of CUE to defend their case before the Faculty Council, but in the past the professors have rarely relished the task. Because the CUE rarely takes a vote--preferring to "reach a consensus," as Bowersock calls it--and because many of the faculty members remain silent during much of the CUE discussions, students often have no idea what faculty members think of their ideas. "We figure if they are quiet," Henderson deducts "they (the professors) don't object...
...arguments delineate the problems in giving the fetus these equivalent rights. The first looks at individual rights as the products of a social doctrine. Animals and children are unavoidably present within a society, and to ensure that they remain functioning members of that society they must be protected from exploitation by other societal members. Different political platforms advocate different rights--the right to free medical care, the right to minimal taxation--but all demarcate the interaction of the individual within the group. A person's rights protect him from future harassment, but to actually obtain those rights he must already...
Courageous and difficult endeavors such as these must of course be applauded by concerned Bostonians. But until blatant acts of disregard for the property, security, and civil rights of others receive the punishment they deserve--regardless of who commits these acts--Boston will remain an expanse of separate minefields...
Thirdly, the U.S. has clearcut strategic amd military reasons to remain committed to Israel--it needs a listening post in the Middle East and a military post in its oil route, the Persian Gulf...