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...tree will be planted on Friday at a ceremony to be attended by Vellucci, Mayor Alice K. Wolf and a troop of boy scouts. And just in case, Vellucci says, the city will be placing a six-foot steel sheet around the base of the tree to protect it from future vandals...
...constant presence of the tech crew on stage is an interesting addition in the early scenes of the show. Sitting in the audience, they supply sound effects by playing wind chimes, blowing in bottles and whispering. The techies reappear later as the roving theater troop, blurring the lines between cast and crew...
Under the resolution, the president may direct troops into hostilities, but he must bring them home in 60 days if Congress has not voted to authorize the deployment or extended the deadline to a maximum of 90 days. Despite dozens of troop deployments by presidents in the past 18 years--ranging in scale from Carter's attempt to free the hostages in Iran and Reagan's assault on Grenada to Bush's intervention in Panama and Saudi Arabia--Congress has never invoked the War Powers Resolution...
...would have set up a six person permanent consultative body, made up of the speaker of the House, the president pro tempore of the Senate and the majority and minority leaders of both houses. This group would meet frequently with the president and would have to approve any troop movements before the president could act, which would give Congressional leaders a more significant role in military policy-making. The result would be regular interaction between the executive and legislative branches in shaping national security policy--the process originally envisioned by the framers of the Constitution...
When Iraq invaded Kuwait, Mike lay low. But then another childhood friend, a woman named Esrar al-Ghabandi, was killed. Unlike Mike, Esrar had joined the resistance immediately. After Esrar had made four trips to Saudi Arabia to deliver information about Iraqi troop movements in Kuwait, Mike and some friends discovered her mutilated body. Esrar had been axed in the head and shot seven times in her breasts and vagina. Within days, Mike and his friends formed their own resistance cell, which operated apart from the more organized efforts of other Kuwaitis. They met frequently to plan strategy, and Mustafa...