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...contends, the U.S. not only backs the wrong side-"repression and corruption and privilege"-but "inevitably the losing side." Hart charges that Mondale was slow to turn against the Viet Nam War and has yet to learn its lessons. A leader, said Hart, must know "not only where to commit your forces but where not to commit your forces...
...other in proclaiming undying fealty to Israel. Hart was quicker to demand the withdrawal of Marines from Lebanon, although how much quicker remains a matter of dispute. Their greatest and most revealing differences in the Middle East come over Persian Gulf oil. Mondale says he would be willing to commit U.S. ground troops to keep it flowing; Hart says he would not. At the debate, Mondale said that the U.S. must "make certain that the American interest in stability and keeping the area out of the reach of the Soviet Union is kept in mind by the world." Hart allowed...
...Senator's fear of using American power borders on the pathological. He has opposed the deployment of US troops to Grenada and Lebanon, he refuses to commit American forces directly in order to keep open the vital Straits of Hormuz, through which much of the Western world's imported oil flows, and now he wants America to abandon Central America...
...large majority of the justices doubled their error by going even further, deciding 5-4 that "a debtor-in-possession does not commit an unfair labor practice when, after the filing of a bankruptcy petition but before court-approved rejection of the collective-bargaining agreement, it unilaterally modifies or terminates one or more provisions of the agreement...
Such an outcome is still an anomaly. Most experts believe that overall the costs of the criminal-court system are not increasing at a rate that is out of line with the rest of the economy. The majority of prosecutors and judges are still willing to commit whatever resources are necessary, even in blockbuster cases. The trial in which Texas Nurse Genene Jones was recently convicted of murdering a baby in a clinic where she worked cost Kerr County a big part of its annual court budget. But in nearby Bexar County, District Attorney Sam Millsap is gearing...