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...officials in Washington have been trying to persuade the country of the need to send troops to Bosnia, but they have not been doing a particularly good job of it. Clinton wrote to Congress last week, "If we do not do our part in a NATO mission, we would weaken the alliance and jeopardize American leadership in Europe." Secretary of State Warren Christopher warns that the Bosnian conflict might spread, but it remains unclear what danger the Albanian army poses. Meanwhile, William Perry, the Secretary of Defense, testified to Congress last month that the peacekeeping mission in Bosnia "affects...
...brow of its last hill. Few wild places remain, and the competition for the public's land is growing and becoming dangerously fierce. Here in Washington, America is faced with the most anti-environmental Congress of our lifetime. Resource-extraction industries, foreign and domestic, are writing the legislation to weaken laws that have protected our land, air and water. We Montanans are proud of living in the "last best place," and we are now concerned that the forces of plunder and greed are about to sanction the destruction of the best of our last places. PAT WILLIAMS, U.S. Representative, Montana...
...need a set of principles and a policy to stand by," said Green, who is now Leverett professor in the University. "If the policy does not work well, it can be changed. To weaken it from the outset is to get Harvard off to a bad start in this area...
...need a set of principles and a policy to stand by," Green said. "If the policy does not work well, it can be changed. To weaken it from the outset is to get Harvard off to a bad start in this area...
...main cause of incontinence and bedsores is being restrained and not being able to get to the bathroom." But wholesale budget slashing will no doubt pressure some facilities to cut corners. Senator William Cohen of Maine, one of the few Republicans to oppose the rollback, warns, "If we weaken federal enforcement, we will be sent back to the dark days of substandard nursing homes, with millions of elderly at risk...