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...contention that force was necessary to make the sanctions stick gained credibility last week. According to White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater, Iraq was getting round the prohibitions to obtain military materiel as well as supplies used in the production of chemical weapons. Other Administration officials say the countries responsible include Libya, Yemen, Taiwan and South Africa. Yemen had earlier indicated that it would live up to its reluctant promise to abide by the embargo. It did allow one Iraqi tanker to unload at the port of Aden, but in response to international pressure it later refused to allow two others...
Human activities have also disrupted the delicate natural systems that maintain water supplies. To obtain wood and clear land for homes and farms, mankind is chopping down forests at an unprecedented rate. But vegetation traps water, reducing runoff and replenishing groundwater supplies. Throughout the world, tree cutting has led to floods, mud slides and soil erosion during rainy seasons and acute water shortages during dry periods...
...professors says that these financial resources are not always that easy to obtain. "I know of very few funds available for [undergraduate internships]," Jaffe says...
...superior-court judge in 1981, Souter urged the state legislature to reject a provision in a bill that would have required teenagers seeking + abortions to get permission from a judge if they could not obtain their parents' consent...
Once they obtain the job, clerks enter into an intimate family. The Justices tend to return the loyalty and friendship they demand of their young assistants. O'Connor, for example, takes an active interest in the personal lives of her clerks, sometimes makes lunch for them, even invites them home for Thanksgiving. Brennan always liked to mix business and pleasure over daily , freewheeling breakfast chats with his clerks. So does Justice Harry Blackmun. "He's a real baseball fan," remembers New York University law professor Vicki Been, "so there's a lot of talk about the previous day's scores...