Art Bell opens the phone lines on a night dominated by two major stories. The first is the rapidly escalating U.S. troop deployment to Bosnia, where numbers have already crept beyond official reports according to the BBC, and General Norman Schwarzkopf warns that a military one-third smaller than Desert Storm may be stretched dangerously thin. Art Bell reads in full the 1969 letter Bill Clinton wrote to Colonel Eugene Holmes explaining his evasion of the Vietnam draft, drawing a pointed contrast with the president now ordering thousands into harm's way.
The second story captivating callers is a CNN report from Kalamazoo, Michigan, where a premature baby declared dead and held by its grieving mother for over three hours suddenly gasped for breath and began to live again. Art Bell calls it nothing short of a miracle and challenges the audience to find any other word for it. Callers weigh in with theories ranging from divine intervention to the concept of walk-ins.
Between these threads, callers debate the court-martial of Specialist Michael New for refusing to wear U.N. insignia, the nature of lawful military orders, and whether rockets launching eastward are slowly decelerating the Earth.
