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...which is bristling with 44 divisions of the Red Army. Soviet troops could strike into the frozen, inhospitable terrain of Sinkiang, but a more likely target is Manchuria, China's industrial heartland. Analysts hopefully discount an air attack on China's nuclear faculty at Lop Nor as a "doomsday" option, one perhaps favored by Moscow's military brass, but not by the Politburo...
...states ratified it. Article V of the Constitution does provide for an alternate method, under which two-thirds of the states ask Congress to call a convention to propose amendments and three-fourths of the states must ratify them. The budget-balancers admit that they're wielding this second option as a "club" to show Congress that they are serious...
...against a national convention-- that it might create a constitutional mess, or even run amuck and try to rewrite the entire document. An Article V convention would face a variety of procedural problems, and the Constitution leaves the details fuzzy, but the founding fathers would not have included the option if they never meant anyone to use it. The legal issues are thorny but not unresolvable; opponents of a balanced-budget amendment should rely on the merits of their argument against the amendment itself, and not resort to alarmist exaggerations of the size of the legal problems...
Walker: It's interesting, too, that Teng has pointed out that they will not forego the option of military incursions against Taiwan...
Smith goes on to describe the day-to-day relations between police and blacks in the county: "As it is, the black community has a great deal of negative feelings, fear and fright of the police. Harassment such as police stopping for imaginary traffic violations and then offering the option of jail or a ticket is commonplace...