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...page report reveals that mentally ill people who drink or use illegal drugs commit suicide at least twice as often as abstinent schizophrenics or manic depressives. Although these doubly cursed patients frequently show up in psychiatric hospitals and emergency rooms, they are unlikely to get much help. "These are the troublemakers," says Talbott, "the ones that everyone has given up on." Thanks in part to the easy availability of street drugs and alcohol, this hard-core subgroup is rapidly growing. "Twenty-five years ago you didn't have this problem, especially among the young," he notes...
...framers, determined never to give one man the authority of the European kings of their day to commit the nation to battle, gave Congress sole power to declare war. But they recognized that unity of command was essential, and so made the President Commander in Chief, thus giving him at least potential authority to order troops into situations where war might become inevitable. As early as 1801, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton were disputing the division of power. President Jefferson told Congress that without a declaration of war, he could order only defensive action, even against enemy attack. No, said...
...point plan that included a promise that the U.S. would deliver 500 TOW missiles to the Iranians and pursue the release of 17 Shi'ite Muslim terrorists being held in Kuwait in return for one or two American captives. Hakim, following Secord's recommendations, went as far as to commit the U.S. to fighting the Soviets if they invaded Iran, and he pledged U.S. assistance in efforts to topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Secord and North approved Hakim's arrangement. Four days before the election, Hostage David Jacobsen was freed (nonetheless, the G.O.P. lost control of the Senate). When Liman...
...contingency forced the Soviet nations to in effect either agree to join hands with the U.S. or to commit themselves to go it alone, accelerating an antagonistic course which was already taking shape, historians...
...quite sure [the speech] will be about the importance of public service, about doing something that goes beyond your particular needs," Dukakis says. The Governor, who has spent his entire career in Massachusetts politics, says he will ask the seniors "to commit themselves in whatever way to public service...