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Fertilizer runoff from the Mississippi River has killed sea life over an area the size of New Jersey in the Gulf of Mexico, says an article . Farmers are resisting calls to curtail fertilizer use.
(It has to be difficult resisting those impulse purchases of new Porsches when you're able to say to yourself: "What the hell, I made $4 billion last week.
As the NYT and Post explain, President Clinton's remark about the House vote allows Democrats facing tough re-election fights to avoid the extra baggage with voters that resisting any impeachment inquiry--described by the papers as a sure thing--might bring.
Intervention was necessary because the United States could not abandon a nation resisting communism.
Plans were developed by addressing questions such as: Why are they resisting this change?