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...with chemical weapons and use those weapons in large numbers. They will not be a decisive weapon but may advance his plan to cause as many deaths as possible. He will also fire off his Scuds with chemical warheads, if he has them, at Israel in another attempt to widen the war and crack the coalition...
...after Washington cut spending and added $21 billion of new taxes as part of last year's deficit-reduction agreement. Bush is still nursing wounds for breaking his "no new taxes" pledge during the heated political battle. Yet virtually no one wants to rescind the budget deal and thereby widen the menacing federal deficit. While the Senate Budget Committee debated a resolution last week to roll back the agreement and halt the burdensome tax increases in light of the recession, lawmakers voted 21-0 to reject the proposal...
...number of early deaths caused by homicides, car accidents, drug abuse and AIDS -- factors that relate directly to the perils of living in poor, violent neighborhoods. Other socioeconomic problems, including second-rate education and inadequate access to doctors and hospitals, also hold down the life expectancy of blacks and widen the gap between the races. Largely because of poor prenatal care, infant mortality among blacks is twice as high as among whites...
...know I don't approve of final clubs. You know I think they only widen the gaps at Harvard and in our society between men and women, between haves and have-nots. You know that what is often encouraged in private, solely male spaces would not be acceptable between us as friends. You know how women can be treated and talked about in such a setting. You know what it means to have a party, a social scene, where a privileged few institutionalize their "right" to marginalize and control the participation of others. You know how fortunate...
None of that, however, softened Shamir's defiance. He managed to widen the U.S.-Israeli rift by shrugging off a personal letter from President Bush asking him to accept a U.N. investigation of the Temple Mount riot, in which Israeli police killed 20 Palestinians. Bush advised Shamir to get out of the headlines and let the spotlight return to Iraq. When Shamir refused to budge, the U.S. supported a unanimous Security Council resolution "deploring" Israel's intransigence, the second U.N. condemnation of Israel in just 12 days. Keeping up his barrage of harsh talk, Secretary of State James Baker called...