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is the same as our winter
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regularly fair prices. Biggest
savings are on overstocks, -
discontinueds, and barely
bruised. Get them while it's
hot. Or you'll have to wait
until it's cold again.

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A Chicago columnist says that many
Americans believe it is time to take
action against terrorists, rather than
engage in prudent diplomacy.

WOLF BLITZER

Capitol Correspondent

M

ike Royko, the blue-
collar, Pulitzer-prize
, winning columnist
for the Chicago Tribune, effec-
tively summed up the trauma
felt by the American public
during this most recent,
hostage crisis in Lebanon.
In the process, he -lam-
basted President George
Bush's self-described effort to
deal with the problem in a
"prudent" manner.
"After 10 years of trying to
deal prudently with vicious
loonies, much of America isn't
feeling prudent," -he wrote. "It
is feeling that the time has
come for an eye for an eye. No,
that's not accurate. It's feel-
ing that maybe we should ex-
tract a hundred eyes for one
tooth."
As reflected by Royko, the
American public is simply fed
up. And if another American
hostage is killed, that anger
will simply force. Bush's hand
into taking harsh military ac-
tion — even, perhaps, against
the President's own will.
"It won't matter what the
prudent scholars in the think-
tanks tell Bush," the colum-
nist said. "It won't matter
what the prudent word-
warriors in the State Depart-
ment say; it won't matter
what any of his prudent
foreign policy advisers say.
"Bush, a politician, is going
to look around and see what
the millions of voters are say-
ing. And he's going to have to
do more than offer prudence
and words."
It will be time, Royko add-
ed, to start "kicking butt."
If that happens, Bush will
have an unusually wide-
ranging amount of support in
Congress and the public at
large, especially if the target
is Iran.
There may be valid
geostrategic reasons why the
United States should avoid
getting into a bitter clash
with the new leadership of
President Rafsanjani in
Teheran. Iran, after all, is an
important and large country,
on the underbelly of the
Soviet Union and in control of
the Persian Gulf.
But the American public
doesn't really care about
those reasons.

Thus, Sen. Arlen Specter, R-
Pa., speaking the other day
on the Senate floor, pointed
out that there "is an enor-
mous question as to how
much more Western civilized
society can tolerate in terms
of what Iran is doing."

Arlen Specter:
Response to terrorism has been
pipitiful.
The widespread and grow-

ing sense of American
frustration was underlined by
Specter. "It is an intolerable
situation that the most
powerful nation in the history
of the world stands helpless
when its citizens are being
held hostage," he said. "It is
just an intolerable situation
that we are not locating those
hostages, to make a deter-
mination as to whether they
can be rescued with
reasonable safety.

Alphonse D'Amato:
Hard to justify defense spending.

Another
Republican
senator, Alfonse D'Amato of
New York, recalled that the

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