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...reformed. "Just when we thought it was safe, they're back again," says Perrin Long, director of research at First of Michigan Corp. "We have to be on guard against the excesses of the 1980s, because a lot of investment bankers haven't learned their lesson. They're still gung-ho, they're still knocking on doors, even though the business isn't there, and they're still blowing smoke. The danger is that they may find some chief executives with big egos who will listen." But while Wall Street's wheeler-dealers may lust for their old profits, power...
...years Sam Nunn, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has been advocating what he calls a "limited-protection system." Last week the Senate endorsed that goal. The gung-ho SDI enthusiasts don't like the scheme because they believe, correctly, that Nunn doesn't want Brilliant Pebbles to get off the ground. On the other side are arms-control purists who see the ABM treaty as holy writ and fear it can't survive any tinkering...
...quite likely that, as some allege, the lack of a draft makes Americans more gung ho for war when restraint would be wiser. But it is also entirely possible that the threat of conscription would dissuade the nation from sacrificing its sons and daughters when war is the only means of preventing greater suffering...
...Jeanne Dorsey, wife of the commander of the Third Fleet, Admiral James F. Dorsey, calls Cione a miracle man for volunteering so much of his time, effort and talent to mold a military community into a theatrical troupe. For his part, Cione enjoys the chance to work with these gung-ho amateurs. "It's their positive attitude," he says. "They're living out the fantasy of what it's like to be a show girl. I love to see them blossom...
...frontline troops as well in preparation for an allied ground assault. Whereas the Republican Guards are fiercely loyal to Saddam and have profited from his patronage, the soldiers holding down Kuwait are mainly conscripts, some of them as young as 17. According to defectors, many are anything but gung-ho to fight. War theorists make no distinction between a cynical professional soldier and an innocent, reluctant one. "Anyone in a uniform is a fair target," says Nicholas Fotion, a professor of military ethics at Emory University. But other analysts see a gray area. Says ethicist Robin Lovin, an associate professor...