Word: democratically
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...some voices are being raised. Amnesty International has asked for permission to send a team of observers to monitor future trials; Beijing has ! warned that outside attempts to influence China's judicial system "will get nowhere." And last week, Congressman Robert Torricelli, a New Jersey Democrat and a member of the House subcommittee on Asian affairs, who was visiting Beijing, took up the issue of the detainees in discussions with Vice Foreign Minister Liu Huaqiu and other Chinese officials. Torricelli said he urged the government to grant amnesty to the detainees and explained that assuming the West no longer cared...
...substantial body of legal opinion backs the view of California Democrat Ronald Dellums, organizer of the petition, who argues, "The Constitution clearly gives Congress the right to declare war. This situation is too grave for one person to take us into it alone." Laurence Tribe, Harvard's famed professor of constitutional law, agrees with this. Tribe dismisses as a "smokescreen" the Administration view, put forward by Secretary of State James Baker, that presidential consultation with Congress would be a legally sufficient substitute for a formal declaration of war. "The structure and history of the Constitution," Tribe contends, "make clear that...
...would believe such an investigation would lead to a conclusion that Mr. Dershowitz richly deserves disciplinary action, be it censure, reprimand or worse," the Easthampton Democrat said...
Although the voting surely was such a milestone, it appeared that Germans felt they had had, at least for a while, enough of history on a grand scale. Christian Democratic Chancellor Helmut Kohl, 60, and his coalition partners took a 19-point lead into the election, seemingly assuring them of victory over Social Democrat Oskar Lafontaine. The anticipated margin was large enough to leave Christian Democrats fretting that it might be eroded by a low voter turnout. Said a civil servant in the Rhineland: "It's certainly no Schicksalswahl ((election of destiny...
...White House, nonetheless, has ruled out a special session, partly because of concern that the Democrat-controlled Congress might reject Bush's strategy. Instead, the Administration's next move will be at the U.N. Security Council. Baker spent much of last week mobilizing support for a U.S. resolution that would authorize the use of force to remove Iraq from Kuwait. Such a resolution would provide the Administration with a mandate for going on the offensive even if Congress declined to give one. Baker seems to have the necessary votes in hand. The other permanent members of the Security Council -- Britain...