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...will not commit to moving until we are sure that the funds [to build the Humanities Center] have been raised, but we are going on the working assumption that construction will indeed begin second term," Thaddeus said in a note sent to concentrators this week...
...investigates. South African right-wingers have accused Nelson Mandela of using the affair to dole out political retribution, a charge the South African President denies. Deputy President F.W. De Klerk has said if Malan is prosecuted, Modise should lose his immunity and be tried for ordering ANC guerrillas to commit 'deeds of terrorism.' As for Malan, Hawthorne says, "The general was asking for no favors. He would have his day in court, he declared, because he was innocent of the charges against him and he would prove it. The action against him, he said, showed that 'democracy was moving into...
Colin Powell built on conclusions reached by former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger of the hard-learned, post-Vietnam rules of engagement: commit troops only to clear-cut tasks, with the support of Congress and the public, and then go in with overwhelming force. Now he too is seeking fresher approaches to a changed world that is still riven by conflict. Last week Powell told an audience at Rice University, "New rules are needed; old assumptions need to be rooted out. The kind of warfare we had thought about for 50 years is gone...
...what if Gramm confounds the pols and pundits and captures the nomination? "Well," chuckles Dole, reflecting a view of Gramm shared by many of the Texan's Senate colleagues, "I wouldn't go out and commit suicide. But if I wanted to, I'd probably have to join a long line...
...Powell tapped the G.O.P.'s best organizational minds for advice, pressing experts for details about deadlines, delegate slating, issues and policy questions, staffing and fund raising. Duberstein, a former Reagan chief of staff, reached out to a score of G.O.P. political operatives, asking those who were unaffiliated not to commit to any other campaign, even inviting those who had committed to stay loose...