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They also pledged to redouble their efforts to undermine money laundering and to stanch the proliferation of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. Getting those pieces in place could prove vital not only for the investigation of the Sept. 11 attacks, but also for the prevention of future ones...
...Richard Bulliet, professor of history at Columbia University and a former director of the university's Middle East Institute. It is a war fought in news studios in Qatar and with editorials, sermons and press conferences. It is a war that the U.S. needs to fight not only to stanch the supply of extremists willing to die to murder Americans but also to shore up nervous moderate Arab allies, who fear their people may turn on them for supporting the bombing of Muslims...
...Albanians are supposed to be completed by September 27, about the same time that the NATO task force pulls out. Many Balkan experts, including former Supreme Commander General Wesley Clark, have expressed severe doubts that NATO's limited engagement will be enough to quell the distrust and stanch the violence. Says Mark Thompson, Balkan analyst for the International Crisis Group in Brussels: "You can be pretty sure that any voluntary disarmament isn't going to convince the [Macedonian Slavs] that the N.L.A. threat is over...
...Last week, the two men joined forces to try to muscle House members into voting for the legislation, which would ban unregulated "soft money" contributions to national parties. (It totaled $487 million in the 2000 election.) Gephardt worked the phones to stanch hemorrhaging by Democrats, who provide the bulk of support for the bill. McCain, who shepherded a similar measure through the Senate last April, targeted some 40 GOP congressmen who've backed reform in the past. His Straight Talk America PAC, for example, sent e- mails to 200,000 supporters across the country urging them to flood the congressional...
...long, tangled line of Fourth Amendment cases for which there's no clear, overarching rationale. Three of the four search-and-seizure decisions the Court has issued this year have been victories for civil libertarians - but some experts say that the decisions don't do much to stanch the erosion of Fourth Amendment protection and the broadening conditions under which courts will give a thumbs up to warrantless searches...