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...Nazi violence was even stronger. Calls for economic and tourist boycotts were widely voiced, and a Knesset delegation canceled a trip to Germany in protest. Said Foreign Minister Shimon Peres: "We turn to ((Germany)) with a demand to implement existing laws, pass new ones and outlaw all those who threaten the right to life of any human being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cracking Down on the Right | 12/14/1992 | See Source »

...turns out to be, this military peacemaking still sets a double precedent. For the U.N., it is the first intervention without even pro forma permission in an independent country. For the U.S., it is a major military action in the name of morality: addressing a situation that does not threaten American national security and in which the U.S. has no vital interests. It is, as Bush said, a purely humanitarian action. But then why in Somalia and not in Bosnia? Or Liberia or Sudan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking on the Thugs in Somalia | 12/14/1992 | See Source »

Military leaders denounce Clinton's plan to end the ban on gays, and some have called on congressional allies to help. Ordinary soldiers threaten to harass and hobble implementation or quit their posts en masse -- a tough vow to sustain amid a recession but politically explosive nonetheless. The Navy's Reserve Officers Training Corps program on college campuses has installed, and last week was upholding, a new oath. It requires student sailors to pledge that they are not homosexual and that they will return every penny of their training costs (an average of $52,967 per student) if they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mind-Set Under Siege | 11/30/1992 | See Source »

...Some Arab leaders fear that if there is no progress in the peace talks, extremist fundamentalism will threaten stability. Does that concern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yitzak Rabin: Peace Before Land | 11/30/1992 | See Source »

...what does this say about non-ordered choice? Well, we can see that it's an imperfect institution that erodes reputations enough to threaten the unity of houses once bound by common jockiness, artsiness, crunchiness or wealth. We also know that non-ordered choice doesn't do quite enough to satisfy those who neither enjoy nor fit the stereotypes. In my house, the Heirs and the Randoms exist uneasily together...

Author: By Dante E.A. Ramos, | Title: The Heirs Versus the Randoms | 11/20/1992 | See Source »

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