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...draft resolutions Congress considered but did not pass last week called on President Bush to postpone military action against Iraq and give sanctions time to work. That is the approach most senior Democrats on Capitol Hill favor, along with a significant portion of the U.S. public and some of the other 27 countries arrayed against Saddam Hussein in the gulf. Said Senate majority leader George Mitchell: "I don't think we should go to war. I believe that the correct policy is to continue the economic sanctions...
...general growled his warning over the telephone. As elite Soviet paratroopers were ordered into the Baltic republics early last week, Fyodor Kuzmin, the regional commander, rang up the presidents of secessionist Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia with a stony message. If your people obstruct the mission to round up draft dodgers, he said, the troops will shoot. Four days later, in an atmosphere of mounting confrontation, General Kuzmin kept his word...
...there was a decade to reckon with. It had personality and definition; it made an impact. It was the decade of the Beatles and the Kennedys, Vietnam and Kent State, the Generation Gap and the Credibility Gap. Negroes became blacks, and black became beautiful; the campuses exploded; draft cards went up in smoke; and sexual taboos disintegrated. When the '60s ended (sometime early in the '70s), the world -- and we -- had changed...
...right thing to do," said Stephen D. Trafton '92, returning from his varsity crew workout. "If it comes to a draft, I would serve. But right now, I'm studying rather than worrying about...
...Gorbachev made the most of what was available last week. Emerging jubilant from a Kremlin meeting with the Federation Council, a policymaking body that includes leaders of the 15 republics, the President announced that a temporary economic truce had been reached with the republics, finally making it possible to draft a national budget for the coming year. The central government and the republics, Gorbachev said, would also cooperate to overcome a deepening food crisis and set up a transitional administration until a new treaty reorganizing the federal structure of the Soviet Union was approved. "Months were lost...