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...power of the purse is Congress's most effective weapon, and the House last week wielded it like a double-bladed sword. Although the House approved George Bush's request for $291 billion in total military spending next year, its version of the 1992 defense-spending bill axed the President's pet B-2 Stealth bomber program and drastically cut funding for his Strategic Defense Initiative antiballistic-missile project...
This line of reasoning has led some women, especially radicalized victims, to justify flinging around the term rape as a political weapon, referring to everything from violent sexual assaults to inappropriate innuendos. Ginny, a college senior who was really raped when she was 16, suggests that false accusations of rape can serve a useful purpose. "Penetration is not the only form of violation," she explains. In her view, rape is a subjective term, one that women must use to draw attention to other, nonviolent, even nonsexual forms of oppression. "If a woman did falsely accuse a man of rape...
...famous November sermon, for example, Rafsanjani argued that young people were being asked to deny the "sexual urge" for too long, and that "temporary marriage," a Shi'ite institution endorsing sexual liaisons for fixed periods of time, ought to be more widely accepted. Says a Western diplomat: "His main weapon is that he speaks the same language as ordinary people, and he talks directly about their difficulties...
...about half the states, Connecticut's statute was rarely enforced. But last summer four people were arrested in separate incidents on the basis of complaints by their angry spouses. Though none of them were prosecuted, lawmakers feared that the legal ban might be invoked more often as a weapon in divorce cases. Under the new measure, adultery can still be used as grounds for divorce but will no longer be subject to penalties of state law. The higher law, presumably, still applies...
...which Kurdish refugees would be protected from attack and U.N. and other officials could distribute relief unhindered. That would also foil two of Saddam's objectives: to tighten his control by pushing rebellious populations clear out of the country and to use refugees in effect as an offensive weapon by forcing them across frontiers in numbers large enough to disrupt the societies of neighboring countries...