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...with "TV, karaoke, newspapers, movies, stage show, gymnasium and golf course." The 1,076 delegates, most of them handpicked by the regime, have been issued a list of stern guidelines. According to the state-run New Light of Myanmar newspaper, "delegates are advised to put on suitable clothes, to avoid taking a bath at unreasonable times, and [should not] eat junk food." More ominously, they must avoid "speaking ill of others," mentioning "topics that are not related to the matters being discussed," and expressing "disloyalty to the State." Anyone who criticizes the forum is subject to a prison sentence...
With the Korean War well underway in their first year at Harvard, members of the Class of ’54 were more eager than ever to participate in the ROTC—either because of a sincere interest in armed service training, or as a chance to avoid the draft...
...didn’t do it because I was bellicose,” Begley says. “I thought [the draft] was a marvelous way to avoid taking any decisions...
...pursued. He bombed Libya in 1986 after determining that it had authored a terror attack on U.S. servicemen in Berlin, and sent U.S. troops to invade the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada and topple its leftist government as a warning to others in the region to avoid drawing too close to the Soviets and Cuba. There were setbacks, of course - the 1983 bombing by Hezbollah of a Marine barracks in Beirut that saw 241 U.S. soldiers killed, and prompted a hasty withdrawal that was later cited by al-Qaeda as evidence of American weakness. And the Iran-Contra scandal exposed...
...suggestion floated late last week to delay John Kerry's official acceptance of the nomination until five weeks after the convention. The idea--which a Democratic source says was dreamed up by the Howard Dean campaign back when Dean thought he would be the nominee--is meant to avoid putting Kerry at a spending disadvantage to President Bush. Under campaign-finance rules, each candidate, upon receiving the nomination, gets a $75 million check from the government that has to last through the election. Because the Republican Convention is held five weeks after the Democrats', Bush would have five extra weeks...