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...past four weeks, possibly in response to an attempted coup. For now, though he is defeated militarily and surrounded on nearly all sides by enemies, Saddam is playing a skillful game. "It's quite a brilliant strategy," says Leonard S. Spector, a Carnegie Endowment proliferation expert. Saddam is "stubborn, steadfast, holding as much stuff back as possible and giving us enough to defuse a possible attack." Such deft maneuvering means Bush has a far larger problem on his hands than anyone imagined after Iraq's defeat on Feb. 27. Until the nuclear menace is removed, Bush's yearlong nightmare will...
...Weicker, who earned a reputation as a stubborn and short-tempered maverick during three terms in the U.S. Senate, the solution was obvious: cut the sales levy and impose a 6% income tax. Addressing the legislature in February, Weicker argued that without tax reform, "our Connecticut, as we envision it, would slip away." But the lack of party ties that made it possible for Weicker to conceive a tax that neither Democrats nor Republicans would propose doomed the idea. With no partisan motive for aiding Weicker, the leaders of both parties helped defeat his plan last month...
...spent the spring crusading against the civil rights bill, which he claims would lead to the use of racial quotas. But his aides say he is considering applying a form of reverse discrimination to the nation's highest court. "There's a part of George Bush that's very stubborn and that bridles at the idea that he is expected to appoint a black man to replace a black man," says a senior White House official. But in private, the President's advisers are almost unanimous in predicting that he will not appoint another white male. "We can certainly...
Michael and William Randall, twin nine-year-olds from Anaheim Hills, Calif., have been just as stubborn. They were excluded from a Cub Scout pack in February because they could not, as atheists, pledge duty to God. One of their attorneys is their father James, but he emphasizes that the legal battle was the twins' idea, not his. He calls the lawsuit "the kiss of death." Says his son Michael: "I just want to be a member of an organization and not have to say the word God and not have an organization force me to say it. They...
Only such an attitude could explain why so many acknowledge the existence of discrimination against minorities but oppose doing anything about it; or whites' stubborn insistence, in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that discrimination is not a problem. The majority of whites responding to a Washington Post/ABC News poll, for instance, denied that minority applicants encountered discrimination in hiring, even though they conceded that minority workers were less likely than whites to advance into management. Even among the large number -- 44% -- who acknowledged discrimination, support for programs to end it was virtually nonexistent. In contrast, nearly...