Open Letter to the Senate re: Landmines
16 June 1998 Hon. Trent Lott Majority Leader United States Senate Washington, D.C. 20510 Dear Senator Lott: We understand that...
Month: June 1998
Fourteen of America’s Most Respected Military Figures Urge Senate to Protect U.S. Troops From Dangerous Landmine Ban
(Washington, D.C.): The U.S. Senate is expected shortly to debate an amendment to the Fiscal Year 1999 Defense Authorization bill...
Clinton Legacy Watch # 26: The ‘Feckless-izing’ of U.S. Security Policy
(Washington, D.C.): Everyone knows the Clinton Administration has been busily downsizing the U.S. government, though most are unaware this has...
Clinton Legacy Watch # 25: Reagan, Bush Didn’t Do It, Too
(Washington, D.C.): Steadily, day by day, the Clinton Administration's defense of its indefensible efforts to improve China's space launch/ballistic missile...
What to Do About China
By James Webb New York Times, 15 June 1998 For more than a decade many concerned observers have warned of...
Senator Lott ‘Grows’ in Office
(Washington, D.C.): In Washington, one often hears it said of conservative politicians that they have "grown in office" when they...
Center’s Jim Webb Explains ‘What to Do About China’
(Washington, D.C.): Today's New York Times features an exceedingly timely op.ed. article about the danger posed by an expansionist China,...
New Theory For Clinton-Gore Silence on Y2K Emerges as N.P.R., Gingrich Offer Contrasting Views of the Danger
(Washington, D.C.): In recent months, the growing appreciation in key business, media and political circles that the Year 2000 (Y2K)...
Anatomy of a Failed Policy: Clinton’s ‘Engagement’ of China Amounts to Appeasement, is Not Working and is Unworthy of U.S.
(Washington, D.C.): President Clinton yesterday literally dusted off his Defense-of- Engagement-with-China speech -- drawing passages verbatim from the text he...
The Tide Rises Further: Bill Safire Calls for Missile Defense
(Washington, D.C.): Today, one of the Nation's most shrewd observers of the political scene and influential voice of conscience in...
Stop the ‘Incoming!’
By William SafireNew York Times, 11 June 1998 For years, when hawkish Republicans uttered the phrase "missile defense," dovish Democrats...
Rising Tide: Who Will Catch the Wave of the Prompt Deployment of U.S. Missile Defenses?
(Washington, D.C.): In recent days, some of the finest minds in the United States have used the editorial pages of...
Secretary Cohen Implicitly Confirms that Gender Integration Conflicts with Good Military Order, Discipline and Readiness
(Washington, D.C.): Secretary of Defense William Cohen got a little-bit-pregnant yesterday. He accepted part of the recommendations of his hand-picked...
Common sense and co-ed training
By Elaine DonnellyThe Washington Times, 09 June 1998 Despite a rash of sensational sex scandals at military training bases, some...
Paper Defense
By George F. WillThe Washington Post, 07 June 1998 In the meadow of the president's mind, in the untended portion...
Death Throes of the C.T.B.? As George Will Demonstrates, Claims for Test Ban Become Ever more Contorted, Untenable
(Washington, D.C.): In today's Washington Times, a proponent of the Comprehensive Test Ban (CTB) Treaty makes what may be the...