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...strategy if using the court for pursuing Policy goals has proved to be successful in this case, but are trade discussions and agreements the appropriate forums for these issues? If the ruling stands in spite of the Administration's appeal, it is possible that the United States government will have to ascertain the environmental effects of all of the country's more than one trillion dollars in annual imports and exports...
...Does it make sense," demanded Virginia Congressman Owen Pickett, "to close the only naval shipyard in a region that is the home port to 149 Navy ships, including five aircraft carriers?" In spite of the force of the argument, one member of the presidential commission said later, "If Norfolk or Portsmouth thinks we're not serious, they are kidding themselves." Courter, the commission chairman, told a press conference in Norfolk, "We're not here to terrorize the communities," but he added, "This is a very serious exercise...
SOMALIA: Might Meets Spite...
Nancy J. Hodes '68 closed the panelists' remarks with a call for optimism. She quoted from Robert Steiner's introduction to a photograph collection, saying, "In spite of everything...
...spite of his previous record in jail and his history of sudden, violent behavior, prison officials assigned Bobby Shaw to the vegetable-cutting room, where inmates work with knives every day. He was neither examined nor treated for psychiatric illness. There Shaw was put under the direction of guard Walter Farrow, 61, who seemed to get along well with his prisoner. Bobby Shaw remembers his assignment with some excitement. "I was peelin' potatoes. I was runnin' the machine, makin' French fries, scalloped potatoes. Corn had to be snatched off the cob. Lettuce and cabbage had to be cut." He remembers...