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Here Magaw disagrees. The worst error, he says, was the decision by the raid's top two commanders to take part in the assault, thus eliminating the perspective that might have allowed them to call it off and avert disaster. One leader rode in a helicopter, the other joined the raiding party that entered the compound. "It's the same effect as if the Redskins would send their coaches onto the field," Magaw says. "Your coaches were where they couldn't see what was taking place." The ATF, he says, had never trained the leaders to recognize the flaws...
...Japan reached aneleventh-hour agreement in time to avert a potentially devastating trade war. In announcing the deal, a jubilant President Clinton said "This agreement is specific. It is measurable."Japan will yield on the major sticking point of the negotiations, taking steps to open its markets to American auto manufacturers.While U.S. officials describe the deal as "historic,"TIME Detroit bureau chief William McWhirtersays its impact remains to be seen. One key point: will the $9 billion in new Japanese purchases of American auto parts -- which in Japan cost less than half the price of parts made by Japanese companies...
...rescue fund to promptly handle future crises like last winter's Mexican peso plunge.President Clinton and the leaders of Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Canada and Italyagreed that the global economy is not growing as robustly as it was only a year ago and promised to used the fund to avert worldwide financial instability. "We cannot walk away from our global leadership responsibilities," Clinton told reprters at the G-7 summit in Halifax, Nova Scotia. At the same time, he said the bailout fund will "help us prevent future Mexicos." In a nod to U.S. critics of the president's hastily...
Tadesse may well have been one of those people. But in the future, the College could do more to help students at points along the way. By emphasizing the importance of a support system in the houses, College administrators could at least try to avert further tragedies...
...back down now. At the same time, his Liberal Democratic Party, which had governed Japan for some 45 years but is now only the largest faction in a coalition government, may no longer have the backroom clout to bring the country's powerful bureaucrats into a compromise that would avert a trade...