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#   percentage of battlefield casualties among American troops are by mines.
#   
#   Yet President Clinton and Vice President Gore are meekly yielding to the
#   wrongheaded opposition of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, even though they
#   claim to support the ban themselves.
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#   Even General Norman Schwarzkopf and pro-military Republican Senators like
#   John McCain, Alfonse D'Amato and Chuck Hagel have all endorsed the ban.
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#   America's proud tradition of CIVILIAN CONTROL [a distant memory!] of the
#   military gives the President responsibility for making the final decision.
#   
#   Mr. Clinton is shirking his responsibility.

The Military are in control of ALL KEY POLITICIANS.

They do so via Secrecy and Scary Stories and ECHELON.

#   "Covering Up Crimes", By Anthony Lewis, NYT, 5/5/97
#   
#   A Government official becomes aware that secret information shows
#   corruption and criminality in a Federal agency.
#   
#   He wants to inform Congress, but he is forbidden to do so unless he first
#   gets the approval of the very agency involved.
#   
#   And Congress has no power to change to change those rules so it can get
#   the facts.
#   
#   That is the legal position---the extraordinary position---taken by the
#   Clinton Administration. It is as far-reaching an assertion of executive
#   power to keep secrets from Congress as any president has ever made: the
#   power to cover up crimes of the state.
#   
#   The Administration's position was set out last Nov. 26 in a legal
#   memorandum, from the Justice Department to the CIA saying anyone
#   disclosing classified information to a member of Congress would
#   be violating the Constitution.
#   
#   James Madison must be rolling in his grave at that claim.
#   
#   The principal of sepa