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...violence, and even deadly force, when no threat to their safety can justify it? Is racism so pervasive among police that the fight against crime all too often becomes a war on blacks? Has the criminal-justice system, which permits too many criminals to go free after serving only token sentences or none at all, become so ineffectual that officers feel the need to play judge and jury on the spot? Has police work become so dangerous that even well-meaning officers can snap under the pressure...
Days passed. The Joint Chiefs of Staff resisted sending the Independence, arguing that such a force, obviously no more than a token, would be no match for Saddam's giant war machine. Just before the invasion, with the Iraqi army now poised for assault, the White House overruled the Pentagon's concerns and ordered the warships toward the gulf. The decision probably came too late to impress Saddam...
Long-range planning began too. U.S. and British officials intended to begin some token withdrawals of troops from the gulf as early as this week, but Americans warned that bringing all the forces home might take longer than the seven months that had been required to complete the buildup. Most will have to stay on until some permanent peacekeeping arrangements can be forged. U.S. Secretary of State James Baker prepared to set out on a swing through the Middle East this week, including his first visit ever to Israel, to scout the possibilities for a wider regional settlement...
...COMMITTEE'S desperate pursuit of secrecy isolates the committee's actions from public opinion as well as public oversight. Some senior faculty and administrators and powerful alumni have been interviewed at length by the search committee. A handful of students were briefly consulted. But aside from the committee's token requests for input, little has been done to ensure that the committee's choice will please many--or any--of the remaining thousands of Harvard students, staff or faculty. The uninformed are being kept in the dark about the biggest thing to happen to Harvard in 20 years...
...presence in the Middle East. The U.S. is more reliant on foreign oil today than at any time since the 1973 oil shock; imports have doubled since then, and last year accounted for more than half the trade deficit. Though last fall's budget deliberations did produce a token 5 cents-per-gal. increase in federal gasoline taxes, the possibility of further levies may have been scuttled when Republican pollster Robert Teeter found that Reagan Democrats were the idea's fiercest opponents...