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...grand, institutionalized United Europe. There was talk of a common flag, of joint Olympic sports teams, but nationalism stayed alive. In 1966, under severe pressure from French President Charles de Gaulle, the Community adopted a compromise allowing a partner country to cast a veto whenever it felt that a "vital national interest" was involved. Since then, the veto threat has been invoked several times on issues like farm prices and deregulation, sometimes slowing Community progress to a crawl. De Gaulle also pulled French forces out of NATO'S integrated military commands and closed down U.S. military facilities in France; NATO...
...moxie to pull up roots and go to a land where the culture and probably the language are totally foreign. Most immigrants are willing to start at the very bottom and work doubly hard to get to the top. Immigration is America's way of staying young and vital. May it never cease! Michael J. McClary Anaheim, Calif...
...weather finally arrived this month, it proved to be yet another kind of curse. A heavy deluge produced flash floods that raced through long-dry riverbeds and rushed over brick-hard earth, turning airstrips into quagmires and rendering roads and rail lines impassable. The torrent washed out a vital railroad bridge that linked the region to Port Sudan, cutting off hundreds of thousands of famine victims from emergency food supplies...
President Bush is right. Social Security needs to be saved, but not because of any major internal problems. Rather, this vital and proven governmental program is jeopardized by the ideologically-driven changes Bush wants to make to it. Social Security must be saved from the President and others, who would dismantle a proven and successful program because they reflexively oppose any increased role of government in our lives. Bush’s pitch sounds convincing, but partially privatizing Social Security is the first step towards phasing it out. The promise of a comfortable and secure retirement guaranteed by a government...
...need to make sure its success continues. AARP is working hard on this, and I hope you will help out by opposing private accounts carved out of Social Security. We need to shore up this vital program for the long-term, but we need to do it right...