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Every time the U.S. has fought a major war in this century, its goals have included the defense of a principle larger and nobler than its own self- interest. "What we demand," said Woodrow Wilson in 1918, "is that the world be made fit and safe to live in." Safety meant the protection of all nations, not just the U.S., "against force and selfish aggression...
January 15: Peace talks between Saddam Hussein and U.S. Secretary of State James A. Baker and go nowhere. Bush invades Kuwait before Congress gets around to stopping him. In the next few days, peace protests on campus multiply--larger and more urgent than those we see now, but still accompanied by small counter-demonstrations and lacking any significant following...
SAWME also agreed to send a delegate to a conference in Chicago of anti-war student leaders from campuses around the country. Delegates at the conference plan to organize a larger national anti-war conference which will be open to all students, SAWME members said last night...
...panel came up with only one scenario: Iraq might have enough bomb-grade fuel on hand to fashion a single low-yield atomic weapon in a period of several months to several years. The interagency group stuck with its earlier estimate of five to 10 years for any larger weapons program, primarily because Iraq still lacks the facilities for converting uranium ore to weapons-grade uranium 235. "I don't know of anyone who disagrees with the consensus that enrichment is a long-term threat, not an immediate one," says an intelligence official. "You can't bomb their enrichment...
From this change will flow other valuable improvements in living, learning and working environments for both men and women. The lessons we learn in setting aside old practices and beliefs based on subordination of individuals of a certain gender will help us in our larger efforts for social, racial, ethnic, intergenerational and international understanding...