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...against Iraq because of the threat Saddam poses to Israel. Libertarian GOP congressmen and many liberal Democrats have yet to be convinced of the need to invade. International Relations Committee Chairman Henry Hyde says he will support military action if the intelligence shows that Saddam clearly is getting a weapon of mass destruction. Hyde would back a U.S. operation to "preempt that...
...reasons: an uninterrupted supply of oil and access to Saudi military bases should the U.S. decide to attack Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Last week a "person close to the Crown Prince" told the New York Times there was talk within the Saudi royal family of using the "oil weapon" against the U.S. and of asking Americans to leave their Saudi bases. After the Crawford meeting, a Saudi foreign policy adviser said that "we will not use oil as a weapon," while Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told TIME that the future of U.S. bases was not even discussed. Still...
...Fears (May 31): In this newest installation of the Jack Ryan saga, Ben Affleck replaces Harrison Ford (Clear and Present Danger, Patriot Games) as Ryan, a CIA analyst who’s tracking down bad guys in possession of an unlicensed nuclear weapon. If you like seeing professionally-made thrillers that you feel like you’ve seen before, you’ll like seeing this...
...Granted, I was in school long before Columbine - and while things were not perfect back then, they were a lot simpler, in many ways. Teachers were more worried about students skipping classes than about any one of us whipping out a semi-automatic weapon and gunning down our classmates. Most of the time, just showing up was good enough, and whether you spent the interim time doodling was kind of beside the point...
...that Blake had been their prime suspect from the beginning, they spent 11 months investigating and traveled to 20 states across the U.S. to avoid being accused of failing to examine other potential suspects, as happened to the O.J. prosecutors. Los Angeles police say they have recovered the murder weapon, a World War II-era German handgun found in a trash can close to the murder scene. Last week L.A.P.D. Captain Jim Tatreau said flatly that "Robert Blake shot Bonny Bakley." Police believe the motive was Blake's unhappiness with his marriage...