Word: fears
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...treaty and proving our intentions to disarm more than mere rhetoric, while Bush has congratulated Congress for refusing its ratification. Instead of the signing the CTBT, Bush supports the development of a National Missile Defense, a project that--whatever its merits--is opposed by our allies out of fear that it would upset the balance of power and disrupt the disarmament process...
Indyk is now like a lawyer disbarred. Practically every government document a diplomat touches is classified, so without clearance, the ambassador can do no work. Indyk cannot even walk around the State Department or his own embassy without an escort. Israeli officials fear his absence will damage the Middle East peace process, in which he was intensely involved. Prime Minister Ehud Barak considers him a trusted conduit for exchanges with Washington. Albright defends her decision. "Ambassadors have a responsibility to protect classified documents," she told TIME. But the crackdown could make doing their job more difficult...
...anyone willing to wage chemical warfare on women and children. They call the drug baby poison and are enlisting allies in Congress to try to ban it, threatening boycotts of whoever makes it. As for the doctors faced with a decision, the greater the heat, the greater the fear. It's understandable that they could take a while to make up their mind--which means that what really changed last week may be more the promise of abortion in America than the reality...
After years of steadily declining abortion rates in the U.S., pro-life advocates fear a reversal if the pill encourages women to view abortion more casually. For these activists, the point of the debate about late-term abortion was to draw tight the line between abortion and murder. Mifepristone, argue its supporters, makes abortion look more like birth control, "more like a standard medical treatment than something that has been marginalized and ghetto-ized," notes Boston University ethicist Annas. But even greater availability and a higher comfort level among patients do not mean the total number of abortions will necessarily...
...secrecy? It's not personal; if you can't find them, neither can antiabortion extremists. The company tries to downplay concern, saying there have been no threats or cause for fear. But its labored history suggests otherwise...