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...this has left the U.S. and its allies with a dilemma. Madeleine Albright, U.S. Secretary of State, and NATO Secretary-General Lord George Robertson have bluntly warned Milosevic to keep his hands off Djukanovic. But they have yet to back up those exhortations with the threat of force. The current NATO commander for Europe, U.S. General Joseph Ralston, has been "as quiet as a church mouse" on the topic, says analyst John Fox of the Washington-based Open Society Institute. Fox says the West has made a critical mistake by letting Milosevic take the offensive. The current stance--keeping Belgrade...
...good pols know what they should do when taking a drubbing - wait it out. Gore made it through his hazing. In the Republican primaries John McCain couldn't, lashing out at conservative leaders Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell in a way that came across as just so much screedy bleating. Now Bush must press on without the overreaction that can sink candidates...
...tolerance and diversity in choosing Lieberman, the first Jew to run for vice president on a major party ticket. Jews across the country were said to be celebrating at the news. "From the kosher restaurants of Manhattan's Upper West Side to the corner shuls of Los Angeles' Pico-Robertson district," proclaimed the Los Angeles Times, "conversations on Monday turned to a single thought: He's one of ours...
...enforcement of Title 6... when a state agency is spending its funds in a racially discriminatory manner that it (the federal government) will cut funds to the agency... there's fed money coming into the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority that are being used on racist rail projects." -Ted Robertson, march organizer...
Usually sanguine, LeVake was genuinely hurt. "I had been waiting for 13 years to get a shot," he says. "I felt like 'Golly, I was shortchanged.'" He sent out a series of letters explaining his case to conservative advocacy groups and got a bite from Pat Robertson's American Center for Law and Justice. "This is a landmark case," says LeVake's pro-bono attorney, Frank Manion. "For the first time, we have a teacher who is not asking to teach creationism. He simply wants to teach science the way he thinks--and the way a lot of people think...