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...surveillance equipment installed at the nuclear sites has run out of film and battery power. Pentagon officials caused jitters in Pyongyang by telling reporters they were weighing plans to reinforce the 37,000 American soldiers stationed in the South, deploy Patriot antimissile batteries or dispatch some aircraft carriers to bolster Seoul's army. "We are responsibly thinking about every conceivable thing that could happen, bad and good," said Clinton, after a briefing by Secretary of Defense Les Aspin and other senior defense officials...
RESHUFFLE THE STAFF -- AND TAKE A BREAK A senior official admitted late last % week that deputy chief of staff Roy Neel will be leaving the Administration within weeks for a job in the private sector, opening the No. 2 management spot. Neel's departure will bolster those in the Administration who wonder what, if anything, can be done to bring more orderly attention to problems. Some hope New York attorney Harold Ickes, who was passed over for the deputy's job in January, will be pressed to fill Neel's shoes. A court-appointed investigator cleared Ickes last week...
...dropped Marxist orthodoxy to begin economic reforms he hoped would make China "a modern, powerful socialist country." He and his disciples insist they are creating a "socialist market economy," an oxymoron they interpret officially as "socialism with Chinese characteristics." While they cling to such slogans to bolster their positions, in practice they are producing capitalism with Chinese characteristics...
However, Manter Hall administrators say thereare no plans to bolster student enrollment...
Using well-known books to bolster her arguments, Chou cited both Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly as indicative of the widening gap between today's Asian-American writers and their parents...