Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Director Magaw says ATF has begun to change. His first priority, he says, was to address what he saw as the central lesson of the Waco disaster: lack of training, even among field commanders. The initial raid, which took place Feb. 28, 1993, was by all accounts an inexcusable disaster...
Here Magaw disagrees. The worst error, he says, was the decision by the raid's top two commanders to take part in the assault, thus eliminating the perspective that might have allowed them to call it off and avert disaster. One leader rode in a helicopter, the other joined the...
Such an approach could have meant a box office disaster for Disney, and indeed, the result is a wholly un-Disney film. But "Pocahontas" succeeds in taking Disney's animation to a higher level of complexity and storytelling approach.
South Korean President Kim Young-sam has declared a new war on corruption in the wake of the disaster, which officials blame on bribery that allowed shoddy construction to go unchecked. Three other public works accidents in the past year have killed more than 170 South Koreans.
All that doesn't impress U.S. Republicans. The party's international-elections monitoring arm pronounced the polling a disaster a day before it started, declaring that it failed to meet "minimally accepted standards." In Washington, Jesse Helms, head of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, decried the $235 million Clinton has...