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...compliance enough. But U.S. officials doubt Saddam has renounced his dreams of regional dominance. Moreover, he is violating the U.N. resolutions on two key points by refusing to acknowledge Kuwait's independence and by committing human-rights violations against Iraq's Kurds and Shi'ites. Says Secretary of State Warren Christopher: "The stakes are too high to give Iraq the benefit of the doubt or to let our policy be dictated by commercial interests or simple fatigue...
...issue has endured a long struggle in Washington. In 1987, Warren McCleskey, a black factory worker in Atlanta, brought an appeal before the Supreme Court. McCleskey, who had been sentenced to death in the killing of a white police officer in 1978, argued that sentencing patterns in Georgia proved racial bias. The court fractured 5-4 against McCleskey, even though Antonin Scalia conceded, in a note to Thurgood Marshall, that prosecutorial and jury decisions are influenced by "the unconscious operation of irrational sympathies and antipathies, including racial." McCleskey was executed in September...
...Angeles Times, which stated that the U.S. was readying "600 heavily armed and protected troops" to purge the Haitian military, prompted Secretary of Defense William Perry to comment, "I didn't recognize it as any plan we're working on." The same report drew from Secretary of State Warren Christopher a less guarded response: "That's the kind of force that's being discussed." U.N. Ambassador Madeleine Albright weighed in with an ambiguous "We are not ruling anything...
...what was announced as the largest telecommunications contract for an American company abroad, the Saudi Arabian government awarded AT&T a $4 billion contract to modernize its phone system. Intense lobbying from the Clinton Administration, including visits from Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown, contributed to the success of the deal...
This time, as before, the problem lay beneath the airport's terrazzo floors, amid the underground warren of computers, conveyor belts, wires and thousands of motors that make up the airport's Disneyesque baggage system. As designed, 4,000 computer-guided fiber-glass carts, each carrying a single suitcase, will roll along 22 miles of serpentine steel tracks, delivering 60,000 bags an hour to and from dozens of distant gates and carrousels. The system employs electromagnetic motors attached to the tracks to power the carts, which are routed and monitored by banks of logic controllers, sensors and photocells...