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...first blush, the veterans have a point. The United States declared war on Japan only after the gruesome bloodshed at Pearl Harbor. Japanese kamikazes--the Hamas car-bombers of the forties--wreaked havoc on American servicemen at sea. The Japanese frequently defied international law in torturing American POWs...
Whether by refusing to admit a boat carrying helpless Jewish refugees into an American harbor, or by opting not to bomb the railroad tracks to the death camps, the United States government fell far short of moral perfection in its policy towards the Holocaust...
Shaw plans to explore the HIV and CD4 relationship at earlier stages of disease, look at cellular targets that harbor HIV and replicate with varying efficiency, and to evaluate the number of pre-existing mutants...
...best-known candidate is Carlo Maria Martini. As the Archbishop of Milan, Europe's largest archdiocese, Martini, 67, is promoted by moderate Catholics as the single most papabile prince of the Roman Catholic Church. Suave, brilliant, cosmopolitan, he hews closely to John Paul's dogma but is reputed to harbor less conservative inclinations. Some are convinced Martini could spur reform on issues such as celibacy and women priests. On contraception, he once said, "I believe the Church's teaching has not been expressed so well . . . I'm confident we will find some formula to state things better, so that...
...bankruptcy also spread anxiety far beyond the borders of Orange County. Japanese investors sold off dollars and U.S. securities. Stock and bond prices swung down on Wall Street amid fears that other large municipalities might harbor high-risk investments. In Washington, Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan told Congress that he was closely monitoring the situation in Orange County; meanwhile, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission launched a probe into some of Citron's trades in derivatives, which are volatile securities whose value is pegged to some underlying asset or market and which can magnify an investor's gains or losses...