Word: evening
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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JESSE JACKSON (even money). Had trouble staying off outside post in last few starts. Welcome wearing very thin. May well scratch. Trainers say he'll concentrate on D.C. statehood stakes...
...Even if he and higher courts sidestep the problem, Congress can stay the President's hand by exercising another power found in Article I, Section 8: refusing to fund the war, as Congress eventually did in Vietnam. But the ultimate check on White House adventurism may be the one noted by the late American historian Clinton Rossiter: "The people with their overt or silent resistance, not the court with its power of judicial review, will set the only practical limits to arrogance of abuse...
...NUNN (even money). Word is that Georgia Senator wants a place in the gate. He'll attract big money, but powerful liberals may foul on the turns...
Despite justifiable worries about close calls in the sky, the collision of two Northwest airliners at Detroit's Metro Airport last week suggests that airplane passengers face grave danger even on the ground. The accident, in which eight people were killed and 24 injured, raised a life-and-death question: If runways are so foggy that a pilot can miss two turns and wind up in the path of a plane rolling toward takeoff, why is the airport still open...
...potential for war in the Persian Gulf has heightened, the debate about U.S. policy has come to hinge largely on two questions. Can sanctions really cripple Iraq? And even if they can, will that be enough to persuade Saddam to leave Kuwait? Those questions are dissolving the once solid support for the Bush policy along partisan lines as Democrats in Congress have begun to insist, loudly, that the embargo must be given time. Says Maryland Senator Paul Sarbanes: "The cost of a year of waiting is nothing compared with the cost of a week...