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...Civil rights leaders were quick to stress that the ruling in the case of Oklahoma City Board of Education v. Dowell was no broad-brush renunciation of busing. Rather, it was a declaration that the existence of single-race schools did not necessarily amount to incontestable evidence of continued racial discrimination. The Justices emphasized that before a federal busing order could be lifted, schools must first convince courts that they have met the test of good-faith compliance and have erased all traces of past discrimination owing to segregated schooling. "This is a fairly high standard," said Janell Byrd...
...recognize that a Palestinian state filled with people like the blood-thirsty demonstrators in Lebanon and Jordan could hardly promote American interests. He must continue to resist linkage between the Gulf War and the Palestinian question and must insist that no international conference take place without serious assurances for broad-ranging, all-inclusive Arab-Israeli peace...
...swimmer Raik Hannemann, who won the bronze medal in the 1990 Goodwill Games, said he took steroids from 1982 until 1988. "It was a normal thing all over the world," he says. With Germany's unification, East German swimmers became subject to a much tougher testing program, which ended broad steroid use, Hannemann claims...
Nonetheless, it is possible to figure out what Saddam could do. Not only is his range of options extraordinarily broad, but few of them are mutually exclusive. He could pursue several in combination or in sequence. In escalating order, they...
...protest movement so far lacks any firm central direction. Some activists are having trouble linking up across the country -- or even across town. Still, the antiwar cause has become strong enough to rally thousands of people coast to coast. They represent an unusual and surprisingly broad cross section of Americans that includes student activists, relatives of soldiers, Vietnam veterans, middle-class professionals and organizers of the inner-city poor. Their general message: Let economic sanctions fight Saddam Hussein for now; the nation has too many pressing problems at home to wage a military battle overseas...