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Your article "They Had A Plan," on the efforts by the Clinton and Bush administrations to take the offensive against al-Qaeda [Special Report, Aug. 12], was a gripping saga that underlines a sad history of misguided political maneuvering and ineptness in preventing attacks. The failure to respond quickly allowed...
What can one conference do, especially given that the record in the decade since the Earth Summit is largely one of painfully slow progress and a deepening global environmental crisis? Johannesburg will surely sound another alarm. Above all, it must revive high-level political commitment to sustainable development. We have...
Prior to his work at the Nieman Foundation, Thomson served in the State Department in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations and was known for his strong advocacy of engagement with Communist China, and his opposition to the war in Vietnam.
Berger had left the room by the time Clarke, using a Powerpoint presentation, outlined his thinking to Rice. A senior Bush Administration official denies being handed a formal plan to take the offensive against al-Qaeda, and says Clarke's materials merely dealt with whether the new Administration should take...
In Washington, Dick Clarke didn't seem to have a lot of friends either. His proposals were still grinding away. No other great power handles the transition from one government to another in so shambolic a way as the U.S.--new appointments take months to be confirmed by the Senate...