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...post-speech meeting in the Oval Office, Clinton was already settling on Nunn and Powell as other members of a potential Carter mission. Nunn, in the White House view, was in a particularly good position to warn Cedras that Congress had no chance of stopping an invasion, a convincing message from the head of a powerful Senate committee who is personally strongly opposed to an invasion. Powell would appeal to Cedras as both a military man and an African American; as the successful planner of the Gulf War he would give the mission credibility among Clinton's Republican opponents...
...alarm went off with Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring and has been sounding ever since. We live, environmentalists warn, in a world laced with dangerous chemicals, from powerful pesticides to toxic industrial wastes like dioxin and PCBs. Despite periodic waves of public concern and efforts at government regulation (the 1972 banning of DDT in the U.S., for example), the chemicals are still found in small but measurable amounts in air, water, soil -- and our own tissues. Many scientists have long argued that even tiny doses of pollutants can cause cancer in humans, but the contention is hotly disputed...
...Somalia reports and interviews with other officers involved warn against the following mistakes...
According to the various project managers, all the renovations were completed on schedule, although some warn that a few details need to be cleared up. Pennypacker residents, for example, will be without radiator covers for a few days...
...board of Air Force officers recommended that members of the AWACS radar plane involved in last April's shooting down of two U.S. Army helicopters over Iraq be court-martialed for dereliction of duty. A Defense Department study found that the AWACS crew failed to warn U.S. fighter pilots that the helicopters were American Black Hawks, not Iraqi aircraft. Twenty-six U.S. and foreign personnel were killed in the incident. An Air Force general must now decide whether the crew will stand trial...