COMMENT

...They just keep coming back...

...I don't want it done," she said, after his ruling...

...And it's time, now, to recognize that the United States invited them in and has an obligation to let them stay...

...Lens wrote, "Taxes were raised in Chicago, as Washington had promised during the 1983 campaign, but the revenue is not enough to put thousands back to work, to rebuild scores of substandard housing units, or to feed the poor...

...Comes now an important study that debunks the economic argument for nuclear power...

...The dreary slums testify to decades of unalloyed neglect...

...Most distressing of all is the fact that this profoundly antidemocratic message comes not from some right-wing bucket shop but from People for the American Way, an organization that has done valuable and heroic work in defense of First Amendment rights...

...She was also pregnant...

...Rosenthal, the deposed dictator of The New York Times now in exile on its editorial pages, to trumpet U.S...

...This was the ultimate invasion of a woman's right to privacy, the rudest violation of a patient's right to informed consent...

...And they advised her against having the procedure...

...Cowardice is one thing...

...From 1964 to 1968, Negroponte served as second secretary at the U.S...

...It wasn't necessarily his fault, but it was his failure...

...True, it was Jimmy Carter who opened the gates of south Florida to Cubans fleeing from the port of Mariel in 1980...

...Of the rest, most have been convicted of—or at least charged with—a crime since they arrived...

...Simply by local initiative we can't resolve all city problems...

...Awad's commitment to nonviolence makes him mightier than any armed member of the Palestinian resistance...

...A great many of their crimes have been serious...

...1, which stated: "Whereas the Constitution of the United States of America, Article I, Section 8, provides that Congress shall have the power to declare war and further provides by Article VI that the President of the United States shall by oath of office bind himself to support the Constitution of the United States, and "Whereas the Chief Executive of the United States has, under continuing emergency powers, committed many thousands of members of the armed forces of the United States to foreign theaters, and "Whereas the commitment of troops as made by the Chief Executive of the United States is in violation of the fundamental precepts of the Constitution: Now, therefore, "Be it resolved...

...The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) seized them immediately, suspecting them of being criminals or mental patients hand-delivered to Mariel by Fidel Castro...

...invasion of Nicaragua...

...he's likely to be with us for many aggressions to come...

...The system just needs a little "fine-tuning," said Lee Hamilton, Democrat from Indiana, who headed the House committee on the Iran-contra affair...

...Government will turn its guns on its puppets...

...They told her it could hasten her death, but might help the fetus survive...

...Chicago's first black mayor knew it would take decades to dismantle the late Boss's legacy: payrolls padded with patronage jobs, back-door wheeling and dealing, official obeisance to the powerful downtown business interests, exploitation of the inner-city poor...

...Dealing with terrorists is easy...

...Instead of twenty years in City Hall, Harold Washington barely had four...

...Of all the fund-raising letters we have seen over the years, this is the most dangerous and the most depressing, for its implicit and explicit message is that the people are not to be trusted, that democracy can't possibly work, and that while Americans may have been capable of devising an instrument of self-government 200 years ago, any attempt to do so today would inevitably end in catastrophe...

...he has had no hearing and no sentencing...

...We're limited in what we can do—we're barely a pimple on an elephant's rear end...

...The resolution sailed through the Kansas House of Representatives by a vote of 96-to-20...

...Let's send it to a museum before it tramples us...

...If that was true of Harold Washington, a skilled and resourceful politician who really cared about people and their needs, what can we expect from the hundreds of mayors, less gifted and less committed, who preside over the depressed and decaying cities of America...

...Power Outage Defenders of nuclear power haven't had much to play with: After Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, you would have thought they would just close up shop, and leave us all the safer...

...If this be isolationism, let's have it...

...But what could the mayor do...

...To be sure, various conservative organizations have deplorable aims in mind if a constitutional convention comes to pass...

...The report documented that Ronald Reagan had violated his oath of office, deceived Congress and the American people, broken the law, and encouraged criminal conduct by his staff...

...Superior Court ordered Angie to have a Cesarean section...

...When an act of violence is committed by a Palestinian, the world is outraged and Washington scurries to deliver another load of arms to Israel...

...He is a native of Jerusalem, a Palestinian Arab who has been urging his compatriots to renounce armed struggle as a means of fulfilling their national aspirations...

...She had been suffering from cancer since she was thirteen, and she wanted to prolong her life...

...Still others would try to impose curbs on freedom of speech or of the press, or to roll back the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade abortion decision...

...After holding other assignments in the Foreign Service, Negroponte came to the attention of the Reagan Administration, which needed an efficient operator to oversee the contra cause...

...When he ran for a second term last spring, we credited him in these pages with reducing the number of patronage positions, opening municipal jobs to minorities and women, and bringing Chicago's outlaw police force under control...

...He is under orders to leave Israel—orders which, Awad insists—will have to be carried out by force...

...To change the cities we must change the country...

...But Chicago's public schools were recently described as the nation's worst, and while there is much competition for that distinction, Chicago is certainly in the running...

...He planned to pay $5,000 to any contra soldier who captured an enemy officer...

...It won't be Vietnam but it won't be Grenada either," he says bracingly...

...Perhaps someone else will rise to the challenge before time runs out...

...And he makes clear what he means: American troops, some of whom—yes—will have to die...

...One man, for example, was arrested four years ago for shoplifting a cassette tape worth $2.99...

...And they've been successful...

...The city's infamous public housing—home to some 150,000 low-income Chi-cagoans—is in worse shape than it was when Harold Washington took office...

...But the system, the powers that be, have a way of containing such people.' —Sidney Lens in The Progressive, June 1985 Harold Washington may well have been the best of today's big-city mayors...

...Her fetus was twenty-six weeks old, and her doctors asked whether she wanted to have a Cesarean section...

...Welcome Back The foreign-policy bureaucracy has a wonderful way of recycling its most belligerent officials...

...In fact, there was something: He could have devoted his substantial political talents, the talents he deployed joyously and energetically in his wars against political opponents, to mobilizing an effective political movement—not a personal machine in the conventional mode that would elect and re-elect him to office, but a movement to confront the interests that were strangling his city and all the cities of America...

...Proudly he put his name to House Concurrent Resolution No...

...Unfortunately, it died in the State Senate...

...We're boxed into a system," Washington told Sid Lens in 1985...

...They don't die...

...And unless you and I act immediately, we may actually lose the Constitution whose 200th anniversary we are about to celebrate...

...The womb is one of them...

...interventionism...

...After seven years, the status of these 200 has not been resolved...

...But a great many have not...

...he hasn't been accused of any crime, but he's spent the last three years in custody...

...The Long Arm of the Law Is nothing sacred...

...In 1985, The Progressive's late senior editor, Sidney Lens, an old friend of the mayor, assessed the first two years of Washington's tenure in City Hall and called the results disappointing...

...We have plenty of problems of our own...

...The state—any 'I don't want the next generation [of Palestinians] educated in violence...

...The young legislative sponsor had such a precise understanding of the constitutional provisions for declaring war and such an earnest interest in preventing further bloodshed that we can't help but wonder what ever became of him...

...The United States has no license to act as the globe's cop...

...During a conference call while she was being prepared for surgery, the D.C...

...Hard-core unemployment, particularly in the black community that makes up more than 40 per cent of the city's population, is high and intractable...

...Chicago will have decent health care, decent schools, decent job opportunities, decent housing, when these become national priorities—not before...

...But it is Ronald Reagan's Justice Department that dealt with the problem by not dealing with it...

...He told a member of the U.S...

...She agreed...

...Negroponte's imperial manner became something of a liability for the Administration, so he was gently reassigned to the position of Assistant Secretary of State for oceans and international environmental and scientific affairs...

...But the survival of the machine was only a small symptom of a much larger failure: Harold Washington failed to deliver on the promise that he would bring fundamental institutional change to the city of Chicago...

...It's blissfully naive to suggest that the U.S...

...The report issued only two flimsy recommendations for altering the way covert action is conducted...

...But he's back from the depths...

...Two days later, Angie died...

...But that three-syllable word was too big for the lightweights on Capitol Hill...

...Was there nothing, then, that Harold Washington could have done to leave a more lasting monument in the city he loved...

...Fear of Freedom Dear Friend," begins the message under the red, white, and blue letterhead, "Right now, as you read this letter, a constitutional crisis is in the making...

...citizens should get over the mes-siah complex that serves as the psychological cover for every act of aggression our Government commits...

...The whole apparatus should be junked...

...Another was stopped for a traffic violation...

...In the eyes of Israeli authorities, Mubarak Awad is a dangerous man...

...Urgently needed health and welfare services have been starved in Chicago as in most American cities...

...Under Harold Washington's leadership, Chicago could have joined with those other cities in forging a coalition that would begin to transform the nation...

...The first would require the Senate to confirm appointees to the post of CIA inspector general...

...Perhaps that is something he would have tried if he had been given the time...

...Not even the people who were on the list were told...

...Bounty for Sandinista or Cuban officers,' reads a notation in Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North's papers...

...Each of these regressive steps ought to be resisted by all the political means available—but not by repealing the people's right to change the rules under which they live...

...When her condition began to deteriorate, she was admitted to George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C...

...that the Kansas delegation to the Congress of the United States be advised forthwith to memorialize the memory of those who have already fallen on the bleak wastes of the battlefields of foreign theaters, by taking immediate appropriate action to return the Government to the people from the executive branch by returning to a constitutional government and in accord therewith to initiate steps to preclude the commitment of the forces of the United States of America to any foreign theater of operations by the executive branch without prior approval of the Congress of the United States...

...The second would require the Executive Branch to notify the Congressional intelligence committees within forty-eight hours after any covert action had begun...

...The prisoners' seizure of hostages was abhorrent, but nothing else they had ever done succeeded in getting them individual hearings...

...When a voice like Awad's is raised, the world looks at the injustices committed against the Palestinian people...

...About 3,800 of these have served their sentences, but the INS wants to deport them and won't let them go...

...They can lower credit ratings, cut off financing, close down factories, choke off new commercial development, and persuade state and Federal officials to put the squeeze on the recalcitrant mayor...

...Sound and Fury Like a shaken can of pop, the Congressional Iran-contra report sprayed and fizzed but did not quench or nourish...

...The ethical and political question about Haiti is not whether to intervene but when and how," Rosenthal says...

...But when profit is on the line, any excuse comes in handy...

...His acting successor was selected by the stalwarts of the unreconstructed Democratic machine...

...He was called, simply, Harold—not only by the politicians who immediately began an unseemly scramble for the spoils of office, but also by thousands of his constituents who regarded the late mayor as their friend...

...These were real achievements, not to be dismissed...

...Angie, the twenty-nine-year-old daughter of Daniel and Nettie Stoner, had cancer...

...Mightier Than the Sword Mubarak Awad is a man of peace, a disciple of Mahatma Gandhi, a practitioner and earnest advocate of nonviolence...

...Judge Emmet Sullivan of the D.C...

...We've had our share of crises lately, but is the Constitution really about to go down the tube...

...Missing-Person Report The year was 1951 and a young war veteran—he was twenty-six and had been hospitalized for several years for treatment of combat wounds—had just embarked on a political career by winning a Republican seat in the Kansas legislature...

...Detention Row The Reagan Administration spent its early years putting stupid policies in place and assuming it would never have to deal with the consequences...

...So, for the past couple of years, the nuclear apologists have pushed the only rationale they have left: that nuclear power is the cheapest way of providing electricity to America...

...Others would attempt to tear down the barrier between church and state...

...Anyone but a fool—or a pack of them, like the Republicans who signed the woozy minority report—knows that...

...But the majority report failed to draw the necessary lessons...

...He was certainly the best loved...

...Witness the Cuban prisoners' uprising...

...Of course, the actions of Haiti's rulers were despicable...

...What's going on here...

...And it was Carter who gave them the special immigration status that has caused so many legal headaches...

...At one point, the report waved at it, wondering whether covert action is compatible with democracy...

...Appeals Court refused to overrule or stay Sullivan's decision...

...If two-thirds of the states agree, a constitutional convention can be called—just like the one held 200 years ago in Philadelphia...

...It's also wrong...

...Or in the American way...

...But the courts ruled otherwise...

...His name was Robert J. Dole...

...House of Representatives that the Boland Amendment prohibiting aid to the contras was "a legal triviality," though he later denied having made the statement...

...they had never been away...

...Somehow, sometime, in this benighted American Century, U.S...

...It's a pity that People for the American Way doesn't have more confidence in people...

...Where do judges get off playing God...

...Some would favor a balanced-budget amendment...

...Most don't even bother to do that...

...Of all the challenges to our Constitution that we have seen over the years, this is the most dangerous and the most pressing...

...I don't think he did very much at all, to be blunt," said Quentin Young, who formerly served as Harold Washington's adviser on health issues...

...But as if this were some insignificant and fleeting concern, it let the matter drop...

...In the worst liberal tradition, Rosenthal calls on the United States to be the cavalry, the men in the white hats, to come to the rescue of Haiti, whose military recently shot up voters and then canceled elections because of the violence...

...When he died, unexpectedly and long before his time, hundreds of thousands of his fellow citizens filed past his bier in the rotunda of Chicago's City Hall...

...Unfortunately, fine-tuning won't do...

...When the Justice Department finally did something—announce that it was deporting 2,500 of the prisoners, the action that set off the uprisings in Oakdale, Louisiana, and in Atlanta—it classified the list of deportees...

...Some 200 of the 7,600 Marielitos now behind bars in the United States have been there since they got off the boat...

...Some areas of our lives should be protected from the long arm of the law...

...We have no right to intervene in another country's affairs...

...If Washington tried to launch a more expansive program—one that involved higher taxes on business—a dozen business leaders would compel him to retreat...

...Government and industry studies reveal that such programs can save more than twice the amount of electricity generated by nuclear power...

...That kind of opening is bound to capture your attention, even if you recognize the six-page single-spaced letter as a mass-mailing piece accompanied by a fund-raising pitch...

...What's going on is that some Americans have been conspiring to—brace yourself— convene a constitutional convention, just as provided in Article V of the Constitution, "If they can obtain the approval of just thirty-four state legislatures," warns the scary form-letter, "Congress by law will be forced to call a constitutional convention that could have the power to rewrite the entire Constitution and the Bill of Rights...

...They don't fade away...

...He had expressed the hope that he would serve as mayor for twenty years, rivaling the tenure and the clout of Richard J. Daley, whose ghost still stalked City Hall in the Washington years...

...I don't want our flag to have only a rifle on it.' —Mubarak Awad Federal Judge Marvin H. Shoob of Atlanta, who has presided for years over cases involving Cuban refugees, recalls a conversation he had with Attorney General Edwin Meese III: 'The first thing he said to me was, didn't I know that they were all criminals.' state—is wise in the ways of violence...

...Negroponte is only forty-eight...

...Before young Americans are sent off again to die abroad, we ought to get something straight once and for all: The United States does not have a moral obligation to go off and kill people...

...He then held Henry Kissinger's hand at the Paris peace talks, but he was so disenchanted with the agreement finally reached that he resigned from his staff position with the NSC...

...They weren't back...

...He did what he could and what he thought he could get away with...

...In 1981, he was appointed U.S...

...Whether it's the Iran-contra affair or the budget crisis, the troubles are the Administration's own fault...

...Take John Negroponte, recently appointed to the number-two post at the National Security Council (NSC...

...Those still serving sentences have expected the same fate...

...Negroponte directed the transformation of Honduras into a sanctuary for the contras and a launching pad for a possible U.S...

...The referendum to close Maine Yankee failed precisely because the residents thought a shutdown would be too costly...

...But, as Alexander Cockburn has pointed out, the United States has all along been supplying these thugs with direct military aid...

...They have excited hopes of a new day in their cities, and they have broken with the ways of past administrations...

...Sure, it made the obvious points: that the Reagan Administration had a "disdain for law" and that the President was not fulfilling his constitutional duty to ensure that the laws be faithfully executed...

...What can any mayor do...

...The unfortunate reality is that when it comes to attacking the root causes of urban dissolution and decline, no mayor and no city can do much more than apply a few cosmetic touches here and there...

...No matter the pretext, no matter the rhetoric...

...Too Costly to Continue," by Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy Project, demonstrates that continuing to operate existing nuclear plants is costing between $ 15 and $21 billion each year...

...Their grief was genuine and deeply felt...

...But dealing with a peaceful resister is so difficult that there is nothing for the state to do but try to drive him from his native soil...

...His body had hardly been interred when all the old, discredited forces of Chicago politics showed they had survived Washington's brief onslaught...

...While members of Congress and their staffs showed more gumption in front of their word-processors than they displayed in front of the cameras this summer, they still could not summon the courage to call for impeachment...

...Over the past year or so, consequences have been coming home to roost...

...embassy in Saigon...

...ambassador to Honduras, which he ran like Napoleon...

...Confronted with that array of unprincipled power, Harold Washington settled for a course of moderate reform...

...Shortly after the operation, the baby died...

...It is the mastodon of our age...

...The nuclear-power industry has no defense left...

...I don't want it done...

...Cheaper—to say nothing of safer—alternatives are now available, including simple energy conservation programs at existing non-nuclear utilities, the report says...

...The report failed to grapple with the fundamental problem of the Iran-contra scandal: covert action...

...The Shores of Haiti Leave it to A.M...

...The Constitution has one—and only one—remedy for such malfeasance: impeachment...

...Someone at People for the American Way seems to have forgotten what democracy is all about...

...Ignorance is quite another...

...It's seven years too late to expect equity for these Marielitos, but the Government might at least get on with hearings for each of them...