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More important, the U.S. may now move militarily -- without giving the sanctions time to work on Saddam -- because the President describes the ! Amnesty report as "one of the things that's driving me. I've heard some guy telling me . . . we've got time. Time. Read it. It's what's happening now. We don't have a lot of time...
...says Robert Bach, who moved to California from Omaha only 18 months ago and has already lost two jobs because of the slumping economy. He does feasibility studies for new buildings -- of which there are not too many these days. "The last thing you want to say is, 'I've been laid off.' That really dampens the Christmas spirit...
...fact, that was not what Waller said, but perhaps he should have. Like any prudent general, Waller was being supercautious. "The military services never tell you they've got enough," says a senior admiral. "They always want just a few more...
...conflict. As a young man, he remembers, he was "a little bit" aware as the Nazi armies overran Europe. "But the whole concept of the real atrocities and the things now that history so vividly records weren't driven home every single day to America," he says. "You've got to remember that in the end of the '30s there was kind of an isolationist fervor in some quarters. People saying, 'Hey, that's not any of our business.' There's a parallel there for what some feel about the Persian Gulf today: let somebody else figure this...
...same time, the decision ruffled right-wingers who steadfastly oppose even the mildest forms of minority-preference programs and who are already unhappy with Bush for his retreat on taxes, among other things. Jeered John Scully of the conservative Washington Legal Foundation: "We've had everything on this except another 'Read my hips' statement...