Word: derailer
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...outcome could have been worse. EPA chief William Reilly, who was in charge of rewriting the manual, tried to ease the existing guidelines as little as possible. But he had to win the approval of probusiness presidential advisers. The resulting compromise may not please environmentalists, but it may derail a bill moving through Congress that would have been even more damaging to wetlands...
Rethinking of that sort has no place in Shamir's strategy, so he might already be pondering how to derail the negotiations if pressure to make concessions becomes overwhelming. One way for him to bail out would be to arrange for several hard-liners to resign from his governing coalition, causing its collapse. That would produce an Israeli election just as the U.S. goes into its own presidential year, when American politicians are even less eager than usual to try to coerce Israel...
...investigators now say openly that the Justice Department has not only reined in its own probe of the bank but is also part of a concerted campaign to derail any full investigation. Says Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney, who first launched his investigations into B.C.C.I. two years ago: "We have had no cooperation from the Justice Department since we first asked for records in March 1990. In fact they are impeding our investigation, and Justice Department representatives are asking witnesses not to cooperate with...
A.N.C. president Nelson Mandela once again demanded that De Klerk fire his ministers of Law and Order and Defense. The newspaper's disclosure, Mandela warned, could derail talks on a new constitution...
Faced with this incipient revolution, Gorbachev and his colleagues in the Communist Party and the KGB are expected to do everything they can to derail Yeltsin's presidential campaign. Even without a popular mandate as leader of Russia, Yeltsin has been challenge enough in Gorbachev's eyes. As the elected head of government in the largest, wealthiest republic, he would be a Kremlin nightmare...