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The Enduring Features of the Debate Over Missile Defense

The debate over missile defense has shifted from whether missiledefense should be pursued as a matter of principle to whetherdeploying such a defense will be effective in practice. Victory inthe debate over the principle of fielding a missile defense must befollowed by victory in the debate over fielding a truly effectivedefense for the American people. ....

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What Does This Woman Want?


Of course, Jordan came to the House in 1973 with certain advantages. Her reputation as the first black woman elected to Congress from the South preceded her. And while there were dozens of look-alike white male fresh­men, no one was likely to confuse Bar­bara Jordan with anyone else. Still, it was another black woman Yvonne Braithwaite Burke of Los Angeles who was singled out as the real star; Burke had been temporary chairman of the 1972 Democratic Convention and her picture, not Jordan’s, dominated the women’s pages. Burke and Jordan were the two fledgling Democrats singled out by the Kennedy Institute at Harvard to attend a special month-long seminar just before they took office (William Cohen of Maine and Alan Steelman of Texas were the Republi­cans). Not once during that month did the two black women discuss any unique problems they might encounter in an overwhelmingly white male institution. ....

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