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...White House that the Democrats were stalling -- and scoring political points as a result. By mid-June the Democrats were threatening to walk out of the talks unless the President made a public commitment to tax increases, reversing his most cherished campaign pledge -- and his most potent weapon for bashing the other party...
...mayhem, cruelty and violent death. Loving images of the human body -- especially of bodies seeking pleasure or expressing love -- inspire us with the urge to censor. Our preference is for warrior themes: the lone fighting man, bandoliers across his naked chest, mowing down lesser men in gusts of automatic-weapon fire. Only a real war seems to revive our interest in real events. With the Iraqi crisis, the networks report, ratings for news shows rose again -- even higher than they were for Panama...
...suspects, both juveniles, were charged with larceny over $250, receiving stolen property, trespassing and possession of a dangerous weapon...
Assassination, says a government official, is a "double-edged weapon. If you kill a foreign leader, your President is endangered" by retaliation. Washington, of course, could ask a third country to take on the task of hitting Saddam, but that strategy does not resolve the deep moral questions of ordering someone's death. It is often argued that an assassination of Adolf Hitler before World War II might have saved tens of millions of lives. If killing Hitler would have been morally justified, how about Idi Amin Dada, under whose regime 300,000 Ugandans died? Or Syrian President Hafez Assad...
...Pentagon official), there is the post-crisis environment to consider. No matter the reason, an American atomic strike in the gulf would signal that, unique among the world's present hot spots, the Middle East is the region where the West views life as so cheap that any weapon of war is justified. The problems of repair -- physical, psychological and political -- and the desire to fashion a more stable regional order once Saddam was defeated would be significantly magnified...