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...United States, the lone superpower and supposedly the leader of the "new world," has been absent in supplying the initiative and resources to mount such an operation. The U.S. aversion to limited military commitments is again hampering a sensible and moral foreign policy...
...issue orders. Wielding 3-ft. wooden switches, they herd the people into neat rows at the rear of a large earthen courtyard. In 30 minutes more than 2,000 people are seated on the ground while others stream in: nomad women wrapped in black shawls, grandmothers in tattered sackcloth, lone children naked but for a makeshift shirt. At one point the crowd seethes forward. Guards, screaming, strike the women on their bare backs. Discipline, of a sort, is restored...
Junior Laura Flynn scored the lone goal with 30 minutes gone, first half, on senior Laurie Uustal's assist...
There are no precedents whatsoever for the Clinton-Gore experiment in political togetherness. Traditionally, ticket mates are lone warriors, always campaigning separately, with the vice-presidential candidate usually consigned to media markets so small that the only competing entertainment is the tractor pull down at the fairgrounds. This year the Republicans are pushing that tradition to new limits by turning Dan Quayle into a virtual Stealth Vice President. There are not even any pictures of him on the Bush-Quayle re- election poster, presumably out of fear that the Vice President's vapid visage will repel swing voters. Says...
...Carolina urged the Air Force to "save money" by abandoning the Florida site and coming on up to Myrtle Beach, whose base is scheduled to close next spring. Meanwhile, Sam Gibbons of Tampa pitched McDill Air Force Base, and J. J. "Jake" Pickle of West Texas talked up the Lone Star State's Bergstrom Air Force Base...