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These days, national emergencies expire after six months unless formally continued by the President. After announcing an emergency, the President must indicate which emergency powers he plans to activate. In 1979, in response to the hostage crisis, President Jimmy Carter declared a national emergency, freezing all Iranian assets in the...
The H1N1 declaration sounds more dire than it really is. Obama has neither seized property nor commanded any militia to combat swine flu. So far, he has only given the Secretary of Health and Human Services the ability to do things like allowing hospitals to transfer patients to special satellite...
• In 1990 he created the Serbian Democratic Party (SDS), which under his leadership resisted Bosnia's independence and suppressed other ethnic groups.
James Christian remembers the night a few years ago when he and his wife took a Scottish travel agent camping on their land in Kenya's Laikipia Plateau. As they sat under a starry African sky, the hill opposite them suddenly erupted with gunfire and loud booms. "Red tracer fire...
But with more soldiers heading to this part of Kenya every year, it remains to be seen whether the tourism industry and the wildlife will begin to suffer. When exercises are under way, the gunfire can be heard for miles. In 2006 British troops on patrol got lost and shot...