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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...statement offers more rhetorical parsley before finally serving up some solutions. "We must begin paying off the debt by the year 2000," reads the | document promisingly, before descending into a laundry list of the obvious. "Combat waste, fraud and abuse . . . Streamline government." Churlishly, the declaration focuses on the programs of the elderly as a source of income for the young. "Social security is a generational scam . . . Raise the retirement age." Does this mean Grandpa should go back to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking Shots at The Baby Boomers | 7/19/1993 | See Source »

...most of these details either. All he has learned by now -- and McGinniss insists on Teddy's prolonged isolation from the events in Dallas -- is that J.F.K. has been killed and that his body and widow are en route to Washington. No other grim specifics. How then can McGinniss document Teddy's concern over Caroline's ignorance of facts he himself had not heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biography Or Soap Opera? | 7/12/1993 | See Source »

...June 2 a committee of senior government officials from numerous agencies began sifting through the options and prepared a decision memorandum analyzing them for the President. In the margins of the document, which had fewer than 50 pages, Clinton scribbled, "Let's discuss" beside various options. White House sources say the decision was Clinton's alone, though he discussed it with Vice President Gore over their regular Thursday lunch in the President's dining room. Clinton chose option nine -- also known as "the efficiency option" -- which focused on watersheds as the basic building blocks of the , ecosystem and reflected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Nature, Stupid | 7/12/1993 | See Source »

...they get a wonderful report from the Israelis is edit it, retitle it, put all sorts of stamps all over it and shove it upstairs. This is another reason, incidentally, why intelligence assessments are so frequently distorted: the same source can fund a whole lot of seemingly separate intelligence documents. Let's say, the Israelis prepare a document which they're prepared to give to an American liaison. They're also prepared to give another version of this same intelligence to the French. The French receive it and immediately signal some of it for economic gain to the Syrians. Then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We Distorted Our Own Minds: John le Carre | 7/5/1993 | See Source »

...Abdel Rahman and members of the ring broken up last week. Some agents then wanted to arrest the sheik, and prepared an affidavit in support. The debate on whether to order the arrest went all the way to Attorney General Janet Reno. The consensus of superiors who reviewed the document and the evidence it contained, however, was that the agency just did not have enough to link Abdel Rahman to the plot in anything but a marginal way. FBI agents did raid Abdel Rahman's apartment in Jersey City and carted away boxes of documents and tapes -- said to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York City: The Terror Within | 7/5/1993 | See Source »

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