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...Baker seems to have the necessary votes in hand. The other permanent members of the Security Council -- Britain, France, China and the Soviet Union -- have all indicated they would not veto the measure, though Soviet envoy Yevgeni Primakov last week asked for a delay so that he can make one more try at negotiating a settlement in Baghdad. Since the U.S. holds the Security Council presidency this month, a vote can be expected fairly soon...
...which automatic dialers can be used. Others -- notably Connecticut, Florida, Maryland and Oregon -- prohibit unsolicited fax-machine advertisements outright. Constitutional lawyers argue that fax bans might violate the senders' free-speech rights, but Congress may take action. Democratic Representative Edward Markey of Massachusetts is sponsoring a bill that would make it illegal to send fax solicitations or automatically dialed, prerecorded phone pitches to people who have notified a clearinghouse that they do not want them. The White House says the number of complaints doesn't seem to warrant such legislation...
...government officials are no different in that respect from most other middle-class and wealthy Americans. Today the armed forces are filled mainly by recruits from the lower-middle range of the economic scale, regardless of their race. Blacks and other minorities also make up a disproportionate share of the ranks, especially in the Army, the branch of the service likely to face the heaviest casualties in a protracted ground war. Thus the prospect of fighting is causing the fairness question, which dominated the congressional debate on taxes last month, to return in a new form: Will...
That social and economic imbalance is compounded by a racial one. Though blacks make up 12.4% of the nation's population, they account for about 20% of the more than 2 million U.S. servicemen and -women. For them, the Army represents not only a job and a training opportunity but also a better chance to rise to positions of authority than they usually find in the civilian world. Colin Powell, the African-American Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, stands at the apex of a military hierarchy in which 26 of the Army's 407 generals are black -- including...
Meanwhile, the President's decision to call up some reserve and National Guard units, which tend to have a larger proportion of white and middle-class recruits, will make the gulf force more representative. And many would agree with General Powell when he says that, for now, questions of equity can't be allowed to stand in the way of the gulf mission. "When we decide to send the 82nd Airborne division or the First Cavalry division, they go," he explains. "We don't start saying, 'Well, let me check; we don't have enough blacks, or we have...