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Last week D. C. Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly asked for National Guard troops to help police her city. Her request was not a response to a temporary crisis, as was the call for troops in Los Angeles during the 1992 riots. Rather, Kelly petitioned for the Guard because of the continuing violence that plagues the nation's capital, violence so extreme that the city has garnered the distinction of "murder capital of the world...
...request from Kelly didn't get very far. President Clinton considered the unusual plea at a meeting with security advisers--and promptly turned it down. Not surprisingly, a sudden injection of federal troops into the nation's capital had little appeal to the president...
...honest, Kelly's request had a political dimension. She is engaged in a political battle in which law and order are, as always, hot topics. She no doubt expected that Clinton would reject the deployment, but figured she could gain some points by making the effort...
Although they're usually hounding sources for a quick quote, a band of Crimson reporters and editors dropped in last night on the homes of several faculty members with a different kind of request: they wanted candy...
...hindsight, President Clinton undoubtedly wishes he'd stopped that U.N. Security Council resolution on Somalia last June -- the one leading to the pursuit and capture of warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid. Defense Secretary Les Aspin has admitted that he regrets vetoing the military's request for more tanks for Somalia in September -- tanks that might have prevented Aidid's massacre of American troops on Oct. 3. And the Administration might well be having second thoughts about the so-called Governors Island accord of July 3, which committed the U.S. to send at least a few troops to help restore democracy...