PUBLIC FORUM : SURPRISE WAS NEEDED TO ELIMINATE WEAPONS.The attack on Iraq was, I hope, as surprising to Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein (born April 28, 1937, Tikrit, Iraq—died Dec. 30, 2006, Baghdad) President of Iraq (1979–2003). He joined the Ba'th Party in 1957. Following participation in a failed attempt to assassinate Iraqi Pres. as it appears to have been to the American people An American people may be:
The equipment for making biological agents in particular can be quite stunningly compact and transportable; yet the consequence of the deployment of weapons containing these agents is potentially so awesome - both in the number and horror of the death they can cause - that it is absolutely essential for us and the community of the civilized world to assure that they are never unleashed. President Clinton was absolutely right in his decision to attack, swiftly and without further warning, an intransigent despot. The time for talk of cooperation has ended and we must act. The United Nations inspectors, who ought to know and certainly know better than most of us, have said that they believe these weapons continue in production at particular locations. Indeed, why have inspectors and a council of security advisers at all if we will not listen to their reports and advice? - C. Dickinson Hill Winnetka With Clinton's impeachment impeachment, formal accusation issued by a legislature against a public official charged with crime or other serious misconduct. In a looser sense the term is sometimes applied also to the trial by the legislature that may follow. vote originally scheduled one day after the new bombing of Iraq There have been several bombings of Iraq:
Get real. What difference does it make to President Clinton whether the vote is held today or a week from today? This is a story from the imaginations of Hollywood, and that's where it belongs to stay. - Craig Lennon Kysar Sherman Oaks The law of karma says that in the afterlife, we will all have to suffer the consequences of our own evil. I believe that in the afterlife, all those people hyperventilating about Clinton will have to go through six years where the whole world will know every detail of their sex life, and they will have to justify every detail to the whole world. Wouldn't it be better that we recognize, as does just about every other Western democracy, that information about private consensual CONSENSUAL, civil law. This word is applied to designate one species of contract known in the civil laws; these contracts derive their name from the consent of the parties which is required in their formation, as they cannot exist without such consent. 2. sexual relationships is protected by an express constitutional right of privacy, and it is nobody else's business? - Martin Kotowski Sherman Oaks Yet another crisis emerges in Iraq as the president faces the do-or-die vote of his political career. The Democrats and even the incoming Republican speaker of the House, Rep. Bob Livingston This article is about the politician. For the Texas musician, see Bob Livingston (musician). Robert Linlithgow Livingston IV, better known as Bob Livingston (born April 30, 1943), is a Washington, D.C. , want to delay the impeachment vote. How convenient for Clinton that a crisis, unchanging un·chang·ing adj. Remaining the same; showing or undergoing no change: unchanging weather patterns; unchanging friendliness. in pattern for eight years, emerges just as the final moderate Republican votes tipped against him. How dare Clinton, the Democrats and now, apparently, Livingston play games with the lives of our men and women in the armed forces. If they are going to impeach To accuse; to charge a liability upon; to sue. To dispute, disparage, deny, or contradict; as in to impeach a judgment or decree, or impeach a witness; or as used in the rule that a jury cannot impeach its verdict. him, which they should, do it now and do not hesitate or play political games. Clinton has done nothing definitive on Iraq for his entire presidency except make empty threats and rattle sabers. His threats are as hollow as his word. We cannot trust him and now he may be unpredictable in his use of our armed forces because of his ruthless desire to hold on to power. Clinton should resign immediately before he kills American soldiers in a desperate attempt to divert our nation's attention. - Jason D. Oliver Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. U.N. rights declaration Upon the 50th anniversary of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights Universal Declaration of Human Rights Declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948. Drafted by a committee chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt, it was adopted without dissent but with eight abstentions. , it may now be the time to make significant improvements to it. Notably missing from the declaration are several rights that appear in the U.S. Constitution. I would suggest that the U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations propose additions to the universal declaration to include all the rights contained in the U.S. Constitution. Then we could all have a true beacon to celebrate. - Carl Olson Woodland Hills Educating the gifted Regarding ``Educating gifted kids,'' Public Forum, Dec. 11: Programs for gifted children do not subtract from programs for children with disabilities. Both have special needs. Imagine yourself, a literate adult, forced to watch ``Bevis and Butt-head'' for 12 hours a day, every day, forever, and you start to get the notion of what school must feel like to gifted kids. Oh, and by the way, there will be a test, meaning that one is forced to take this nonsense seriously. The needs of gifted children are mostly ignored. There are about one-third of the spaces needed in the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Unified School District's magnet programs for gifted students. For students entering San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. middle schools this year, there were 415 spaces and 1,133 applicants. There were 60 spaces for entering students at one high school for the highly gifted. I agree with Jeannette Darlington that there seems to be a basic lack of understanding within the education establishment, or at least within the LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) , regarding the teaching of gifted children. It vacillates between more-of-the-same boring work sheets and sporadic ``enrichment activities,'' which are pleasant for everyone, easy for teachers to do, but different from meeting special needs. - Shirley Goldstein Sylmar Tabloids should pay Regarding the story about the photographer suspected of tapping into actor Tom Cruise's cell phone and selling the details to the Globe: I am confused. When customers buy illegal drugs or stolen property, they are held responsible and arrested. How can the Globe and all these other rags buy information that can only be obtained illegally, then run and hide? They should be held accountable. Since they seem willing to pay for anything, they also should pay all the court costs court costs n. fees for expenses that the courts pass on to attorneys, who then pass them on to their clients or, in some kinds of cases, to the losing party. for convictions. We taxpayers are now doing that. - Chuck Heinold West Hills Saving Social Security In my opinion, there would not be a Social Security problem if Congress and the present and former presidents had not looted loot n. 1. Valuables pillaged in time of war; spoils. 2. Stolen goods. 3. Informal Goods illicitly obtained, as by bribery. 4. the trust fund. I have a simple three-point plan which will save Social Security. Everyone should demand that Social Security be taken off budget. Workers under 40 should be allowed to choose a mutual fund or other approved investment for 50 percent of their contributions. This is the most important. The government should start paying back the looted trust fund money, with 50 percent of the repayment invested in the stock market, etc. As for removing the cap on earnings, consider this: Probably 70 or 80 percent of us earn less than the $68,400 cap, so we are contributing on 100 percent of our earnings. However, a person earning $136,000 will contribute only on 50 percent of his earnings. There should not be a cap. If it is fair for most people to pay on 100 percent of their income, it is fair for everyone. - Thomas Kiser North Hills I see that the government has proclaimed a ``surplus'' for the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, 1998. Clinton said income exceeds expenditures by $71 billion, but he may have conveniently overlooked that $99 billion of the income was from Social Security. That results in a deficit. It definitely is not just for the government to consider payments for Social Security as income. Rather, it is a loan to the government to invest for the taxpayer and repay at a future date. - Paul Lohmann Paul Lohmann is an Emmy Award-winning cinematographer. In 1976 he won an Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography for Entertainment Programming for a Special for Eleanor and Franklin, an award he shared with Edward R. Brown. Panorama City Prince's fashion statement Having had to suffer through years of torment because my employers required men to wear neckties, I shout a great hurrah for Prince Claus of the Netherlands for yanking off his necktie (``Ties that bind: Prince freeing necks of Dutch uncles Dutch uncle strict elder who scolds and moralizes. [Br. Slang: Lurie, 122–123] See : Criticism , dads,'' Daily News, Dec. 15). I am going to send copies of this to my grown children who, I hope, are not thinking in that direction for seasonal gifts for their old man. - Kenneth H. Bonnell Los Angeles With one simple action, Prince Claus may have just liberated men from ties, a gift that could last a lifetime. - Lisa Stromer Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, The Daily News' survey question today, Dec. 15, was whether readers consider neckties a pain in the neck. Since this was a yes-or-no survey, I had to answer yes, although truthfully my opinion of neckties is lower than that. - Thomas E. Locke North Hollywood The survey results, with 171 callers responding, were yes, 58 percent, and no, 42 percent. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos Photo: (1) The carrier USS Enterprise
USS Enterprise is the name of a number of ships from the United States Navy. It is also the name of a number of ships from the fictional Star Trek universe. maneuvers in the Persian Gulf Persian Gulf, arm of the Arabian Sea, 90,000 sq mi (233,100 sq km), between the Arabian peninsula and Iran, extending c.600 mi (970 km) from the Shatt al Arab delta to the Strait of Hormuz, which links it with the Gulf of Oman. off Iraq. U.S. Navy (2) Prince Claus No more ties that bind |
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