Word: case
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...natural case for taking better care of children would be made on moral grounds alone. A society cannot sacrifice its most vulnerable citizens without eroding its sense of community and making a lie of its principles. But having been left behind by a decade of political shortcuts, child advocates have < adopted a more practical strategy. "If compassion were not enough to encourage our attention to the plight of our children," declares New York Governor Mario Cuomo, "self-interest should be." Marian Wright Edelman, the crusading founder of the Children's Defense Fund, goes further. "The inattention to children...
...theory is that Mikhail Gorbachev wants extra military muscle available in case food riots erupt. If true, that would constitute the most startling indication yet of the President's weakening authority; Gorbachev the reformer would be turning to the largely reform-resistant military to keep him in power...
...Christmas and perhaps much sooner. That is the latest estimate from Washington and abroad. Whether the economic embargo could ever force Saddam Hussein to retreat from Kuwait may never be known. "Our worst-case scenario," says an Arab diplomat involved in the allies' deliberations, has Saddam acceding to Bush's public demands. But the alliance's true objective has moved beyond restoring the status quo ante to the destruction of Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological warfare capacities, a goal almost no one believes can be achieved through negotiation. Hence "the logic of war," to borrow Francois Mitterrand's phrase...
...case against nukes, however, is strong. Besides the taboo that has existed since Nagasaki, and the problem of precedent ("The temptation for other countries to use nukes would increase if we use them in the gulf," says a 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...
...Third World, but we cannot escape them altogether. It is in our interest to help construct some degree of world order, especially as several Third World countries have nuclear weapons capability. That is also why the U.S. must continue pushing for nonproliferation. And that also strengthens the case for continued development of nuclear defense...