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Overdue Bill Tough-talking William Bennett spent nearly two years fighting narcotics from a Cabinet-level bully pulpit. But Bennett left his drug-war ) post so meekly and with such meager results that some wondered if the general had gone AWOL. Bennett then backed off from his acceptance of a job as head of the Republican National Committee, throwing the party into even greater disarray...
...scheduled to join them. But because the military's transportation systems are overloaded, some ground forces now in Europe and the U.S. are not due in Saudi Arabia until late January. Even if all of them were in place by the U.N.'s cutoff date, it would take two or three weeks to acclimatize the new arrivals...
...YORK was so flush in 1987 that it decided to cut state income taxes over four years. But when the economy began to shrink, Democratic Governor Mario Cuomo did not react fast enough. Facing a $1 billion deficit, the state legislature met in special session two weeks ago to adopt a package of cuts that nibbled at school spending and hospitals. When Cuomo took off for ^ Washington three days later to deliver a speech that warned about federal budget deficits, he may have hoped his troubles were over for a while. No such luck. On the same day Republican state...
Officials from many states complain that Washington is making their problems worse. Two weeks ago, lawmakers who assembled in the capital for the National Conference of State Legislatures claimed that the recent budget compromise between the White House and Congress would cost the states an additional $17 billion over five years. Reason: federal mandates in the deficit-reduction deal direct states to spend money for such things as clean air and improved nursing-home care. The group also predicted that the increase in federal taxes on gasoline and alcohol would make it harder for states to increase their own levies...
...have often said that throughout your life you frequently had to choose between two evils. Would you say that declaring martial law was the lesser of two evils...