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Under the D'Amato Act, the U.S. is obliged to sanction Total. But according to TIME Paris Bureau Chief Tom Sancton, that particular piece of legislation won't wash in Europe: "The French in particular totally reject the legitimacy and the legality of the D?Amato Act," says Sancton. "This is not simply Paris goading Washington or testing U.S. resolve. The French genuinely believe this legislation compromises their economic interests ? and with a really huge oil field at stake, they have the incentive to challenge...
...discriminates against boys; young men who deserve the same opportunities as these girls. Although Congress drafted Title IX in response to decades of bias against women, sexual discrimination is not a one-way street. Inner-city girls might learn more in the school's singlesex environment, but society cannot sanction any kind of discrimination. Civil rights laws, arbitrarily enforced, lose all moral standing...
...Israel has no apparent plans to let up on the most crippling economic sanction: the witholding of more than half of the Palestinian Authority's monthly income. "Netanyahu still wants to see a crackdown from Arafat on Hamas and the Islamic military groups," says Lisa Beyer, TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief. "What can he hold back in return? Everything, until the Palestinians do as they are told...
...judge will determine his sanction after the trial, according to Swomley...
...that been the last of it, the affair might have ended like most adultery cases, privately, discreetly, without official sanction. Of the 67 Air Force court-martial cases in 1996 that involved adultery, only one did not include other counts, like sexual assault or disobeying orders. When an affair involves an officer messing around with a civilian marriage, officials tend to look the other way. If Marc and Gayla had been separated--as Marc had convinced Kelly they were--there would probably have been little intervention. But once Gayla, an enlisted airman, told a superior that an officer was trying...