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Antinuclear, anti-Star Wars scientists were not reassured. Some campaigned through last summer against even the mention of any nuclear deterrence in the final draft of the interception workshop's report. Then came word of Comet Swift-Tuttle. "Nothing so clears the mind as the sight of the gallows," quips Canavan, who oversaw the final report. "Even though Swift-Tuttle turned out to be a false alarm," he says, "it brought everyone's thinking into focus. There was no longer the kind of disagreement you saw earlier about nukes versus non-nukes." Compromises were made, and the long-delayed interception...
...with haste. Plans for the raid began months before Christmas. Bush, in phone consultations with British Prime Minister John Major and French President Francois Mitterrand, agreed that the violations of the no-fly zones could not go unanswered. Top military staff at all three defense ministries were instructed to draft a variety of options, ranging from a strike on one no-fly zone to a major assault on Iraq's airfields, missile bases and control-and-command structure. During Bush's New Year's Eve visit to Riyadh, he enlisted the cooperation of King Fahd...
...Leon Panetta, is that "the people have said, 'Don't kid us anymore. Just tell us the truth.' " Why Clinton can't grasp this fact is anyone's guess. All we know is that we have been around this block before. Clinton's inability to come clean about his draft dodging during the campaign appears to have telegraphed an ongoing discomfort with uncomfortable truths, a character flaw that could cripple his effectiveness. "The lack of confidence in our leaders is our No. 1 problem," Clinton said last winter. "I mean to change that if I'm elected, because unless...
Shattuck said he's seen one draft proposal fora program with 100,000 participants. Galston won'tcomment, other than to say "disregard all thenumbers you hear...
...long nomination process can be good--it gives voters time to mull over the candidates thoroughly and decide what doesn't matter (say, adultery and draft evasion) and what does (say, having a plan...