Word: disarray
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...custodians of all this disarray are vulnerable as never before to censure, pressure and restraint from abroad. Mikhail Gorbachev wants and needs the approval and assistance of the West. When his friends George, Helmut and Francois urge him to call off the Black Beret commandos who are harassing the Balts, Gorbachev listens. In fact, he obeys. (Whether the Black Berets always obey him is another matter...
...thought the savings and loan disaster couldn't get much worse, well, think again. In the gloomiest assessment of the megamess yet, U.S. Comptroller General Charles Bowsher said last week the Resolution Trust Corporation, which is handling the bailout, was in such disarray that government accountants cannot even audit its books. That means Washington has no clear idea of how much the bailout will ultimately cost as the RTC shuts more than 1,000 bankrupt S&Ls and sells off real estate and other assets...
Still, even as the state of the world-- and her part of the world, in particular--seems in a permanent disarray, Shehabuddin remains an optimist...
Baker insists that the outcome of the gulf war has opened a "window of opportunity" for peace in the region, and to some degree he is right. The P.L.O. is in disarray and is no longer heavily subsidized by Arab states. King Hussein, who supported Saddam Hussein, needs to work his way back into Washington's favor to get U.S. aid flowing again. The Soviet Union, Syria's longtime patron, now supports the American strategy, seeing the Middle East as a low-cost arena for building up credit with Washington. That support was crystallized in Soviet Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmertnykh...
...debate centers not on the merits of the YF-22 -- no one seems to have anything bad to say about it -- but on the role of the U.S. in the post-cold war era. Even the Pentagon concedes that the Soviet Union is in such a state of internal disarray that it is unlikely to launch an offensive against the U.S. or any other NATO country. As for the rest of the world, Operation Desert Storm has just delivered an indelible lesson in the superiority of America's existing technology...