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...coming to TIME in 1969. Since then he has written four Man of the Year cover stories and 91 other covers on subjects ranging from Henry Ford to gun control and from the future of capitalism to Pete Rose's gambling problems. In September, George moved to the World section, where he writes on such subjects as the gulf crisis and this week's sudden turn of events on the Soviet political scene...
...legal dilemma involves two competing clauses in the nation's governing document. Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution states, "The Congress shall have Power . . . to declare War." But according to Article II, Section 2, "The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States." In Judge Greene's courtroom, Attorney Stuart Gerson of the Justice Department argued that history provides numerous examples of Presidents exercising their powers as Commander in Chief without a formal declaration of war. Thomas Jefferson, he noted, committed the Navy to battle against the Barbary pirates without a green...
Even if he and higher courts sidestep the problem, Congress can stay the President's hand by exercising another power found in Article I, Section 8: refusing to fund the war, as Congress eventually did in Vietnam. But the ultimate check on White House adventurism may be the one noted by the late American historian Clinton Rossiter: "The people with their overt or silent resistance, not the court with its power of judicial review, will set the only practical limits to arrogance of abuse...
...occupants of the DC-9 were not so fortunate. Smoke and toxic fumes engulfed the cabin as flames flickered from the tail section. "The explosion came from the back of the plane," recalled passenger Fred Guyor. "Suddenly all this shrapnel came flying overhead, like a wave in the ocean." The survivors poured out of two exits, some breaking bones as they jumped when an evacuation chute failed to open...
...revel in Bow and Arrow folklore. He says that every Friday night, a man, with a pipe in one hand and a drink in the other, comes in to play checkers. "He puts the drink down just long enough to move," says Arangio, who comes from the Orient Heights section of East Boston...