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What is required as a direct result of such blunders is not simply a review of NATO's strategy in the Balkans but a full and public disclosure of the "extensive process" by which the CIA's information is checked. Until the public of this supposed democracy has access to statistics and hard facts detailing the CIA's intelligence gathering mechanisms and the process by which they are put to use by government officials it is hard to have confidence in the claim that mistakes of this magnitude won't happen again. SAADI SOUDAVAR...
What is required as a direct result of such blunders is not simply a review of NATO's strategy in the Balkans but a full and public disclosure of the "extensive process" by which the CIA's information is checked. Until the public of this supposed democracy has access to statistics and hard facts detailing the CIA's intelligence gathering mechanisms and the process by which they are put to use by government officials it is hard to have confidence in the claim that mistakes of this magnitude won't happen again...
Arming the group is an expensive business. K.L.A. purchasers are buying not factory direct but from shady middlemen who see the war as a perfect chance for price gouging. Says a spokesman: "An AK-47 normally costs $100, but we always end up paying at least double." That is nothing compared with the cost for mortars and other ammunition, let alone for the high-tech antitank weapons the K.L.A. at Kosare needs. New K.L.A. recruits are flea-market soldiers, carrying illegally acquired (or stolen) guns and identified by K.L.A. shoulder patches made in Germany. Heavier weapons come largely from East...
Although tough in asserting her views, Albright has a good rapport with National Security Adviser Berger. They have a direct phone line to each other, bypassing secretaries, which they use three or four times a day. She and Defense Secretary Cohen differ a bit ideologically--Cohen has the Pentagon's traditional caution about tossing around military might--but so far they have had no major clashes. One of her sources of power has been her odd-couple kinship with Republican Jesse Helms, the courtly but cantankerous conservative who is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. But she has been...
...fecund is Andersen's satiric gift, and so broad his scope, that he almost incidentally sprays tiny rat-a-tat bullets at Alec Baldwin, Rupert Murdoch, Stephen Jay Gould, AIDS-awareness ribbons and the word lite. With a sweeter brand of malice, he takes direct (and hilarious) aim at Wall Street money-manager/pundit/provocateur (and TIME columnist) James J. Cramer, who is clearly the model for one of his more memorable characters...