Now Good Time to Study War Powers Act Ramifications

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For students of history, now more than ever might the time to live and study the tensions being created between Congress and the president over the use of the American military in foreign actions and the War Powers Act of 1973.

The Senate voted Tuesday to invoke cloture, a parlimentary procedure to end a filibuster, and renewed its debate over President Reagan's reflagging and protection of 11 Kuwati ships in the Persian Gulf which has been torn by the Iran-Iraq war for the past seven years.

Last Tuesday's 67-28 vote to invoke cloture cleared the way for the Senate to renew debate as to whether the Democratic-controlled Congress should seek to have the …