.... "the fourth wave" of immigration, the debate about what to do about it heats up. According to Linda Chavez, "In 1993 […],over 800,000 legal immigrants were admitted to the United States and an estimated 300,000 illegal aliens settled here, more or less permanently. Over the last decade, as many as ten million legal and illegal immigrants established permanent residence…" (327). However, as Kenney David remarks the numbers by themselves, may not be so disturbing, for the foreign-born people represent only 8.7 percent of entire population of the United States (311). What b .....

.... by Dr. Paul Cameron titled “Same Sex Marriage: Till Death Do Us Part?” In a speech read to the United States House of Representatives on February 20, 1996, Iowa Representative Ed Fallon discussed why he is in support of the legalization of same sex marriage. He began his speech, by stating of this debate and how their vote would affect the public’s point of view. He used the example of “red-baiting,” from the 1950’s, which today has become “pink-baiting.” He felt that by creating gay and lesbian unions, instead of legalizing gay marriage, this would only reinforce homophob .....

.... neighbors on moral grounds. Some people believed that the United States had a moral duty, and a Manifest Destiny, or God-given right to use its power to help oppressed nations, and in turn to rule them, to embrace the democratic government. Revolts and conspiracies against the Spanish regime had dominated Cuban political life throughout the 19th century, and the Cuban struggle for independence became an active revolution in 1895 after Spain failed to institute reforms promised to the Cuban people in 1878. In response to the fighting Spanish troops drove much of the populatio .....

.... on 1997 physical examinations of 1,000 Air Force veterans who were exposed to during the nine years that it was used as a defoliant and crop killer in Vietnam. Joel Michalek, the lead investigator in the study, told a Pentagon news conference that because studies have not yet explained a biological relation between dioxin and diabetes, the Air Force cannot say conclusively that wartime exposure to is a cause of diabetes. Still, he said, the latest results provide “the strongest evidence to date” that herbicide exposure is associated with diabetes. He said the Air Force k .....

.... take them as a patient. They have to go through the hierarchy of offices before they will give the okay for the patient to be transported. Once the patient has been accepted, there is an immense amount of paperwork that must be completed before the patient can be released from the Medical Hospital care. If the patient shows signs or symptoms of anything else other than a mental illness, the Mental health Facility will deny the approval of acceptance. This could result from a simple headache to an AIDS condition. Because there is a complaint of a medical ailment along w .....

.... education, identification, rehabilitation, treatment, program evaluation, and research. There are nine objectives of ADAPCP: · Reduce the abuse of alcohol and the availability and abuse of other drugs within the Armed Forces. · Prevent alcohol and other drug abuse. · Identify alcohol and other drug abusers as early as possible. ADAPCP 2 · Restore both military and civilian employee alcohol and other drug abusers to effective duty. · Provide for program evaluation and research. · Ensure that effective alcohol and drug abuse prevention education is .....

.... a government." Without accountability we are left with a powerful political structure that has the ability to act without conscience or redress and this does not represent a modern democracy. With any discussion which focuses on responsibility within parliament, one can see the varying levels of accountability and the difficulties which arise when attempting to describe power, within the Canadian political system. Accountability in the public service can be studied from two different perspectives. The civil servant who represents the bureaucratic sector and the ministe .....

.... A yearning for a permanent seat on the SC has been expressed by many more countries. The European Union (EU)stated on April 9, 1996 that it feels strongly that the United States should not collect anything off of the UN because it is not contributing what it is supposed to. Many third world nations, such as Indonesia and Chile, are frightened by the attempts at cutting the UN's budget. Most countries feel Japan deserves a permanent seat on the Security Council. The UN proposed an elimination of 70 worldwide UN information centers on May 13,1996, With the supporting argum .....