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Along with the presidency, Bill Clinton inherited from President Bush the Somalia deployment - a well-meaning overseas military operation that turned into a nightmare. And as his parting gift, Mr. Clinton will leave his successor an expanding U.S. military commitment in Colombia, which could just as easily turn nasty...
Although the Vatican will not admit it, Pio Nono is a last-minute substitution for a controversial successor, Pius XII. The beatification of the later Pius was to have balanced that of Pope John XXIII, the liberal hero who called the Second Vatican Council. The past 40 years, however, have seen an unabating storm of complaint that Pius XII did not do enough to oppose the Holocaust. Postponing Pius XII's "cause" and replacing it with that of Pio Nono--also a conservative favorite--must have seemed a good idea at the time...
Colin Powell, when he was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, upheld a doctrine that called for decisive use of U.S. military force with a clear goal. That notion eroded under his successor, John Shalikashvili, who told Congress in 1995 that U.S. troops sent to Bosnia as peacekeepers would be home within a year. Five years later, 5,000 U.S. troops are still there. An additional 6,000 are patrolling nearby Kosovo. Republicans on Capitol Hill have criticized such costly deployments as dulling the U.S. military's fighting edge...
...should have come as no surprise to independent counsel ROBERT RAY that his decision to convene a new grand jury in the MONICA LEWINSKY case stirred controversy as it leaked out last week. KENNETH STARR's successor had previously had a private lesson in just how polarizing the sex-and-cover-up probe remains 19 months after BILL CLINTON was acquitted of impeachment charges. Legal sources tell TIME that Ray had trouble finding 23 grand jurors who could objectively review evidence of criminal conduct by the President. African Americans, among Clinton's biggest fans, were most reluctant to serve...
...Coming on top of the system's failure to pass two out of three basic tests in the past year, the intelligence assessment will likely prompt President Clinton to fudge - he won't kill the program, but he may simply leave it on life support for his successor to determine its fate. But Governor Bush is a lot more bullish on missile defense, charging that the limited system currently on offer is inadequate, and that only a comprehensive interceptor system capable of neutralizing all threats, whether from Iraq or from Russia, can protect America. That's essentially a reprise...