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...about Russia's ability to meet the demands of the station in light of recent troubles at the Russian Space Agency, which have included spontaneous fires aboard Mir and delays in the completion of critical space station components. TIME's Dick Thompson reports that NASA's decision not to dump Russia was based on a sense of loyalty as well as political considerations: "For one, NASA has had a longstanding commitment to work with them. Secondly, there are political reasons in that the U.S. government wants to help bolster the Russian economy. Allowing them to participate in this project...
...staff found that case officers opposed U.S. policy goals and possibly allowed informants to siphon funds. Since his boss John Deutch resigned last December, Tenet has run the CIA--but not without incident. Last month Tenet said the agency did not know prior to 1995 that an Iraqi weapons dump blown up by U.S. troops in the Gulf War may have contained chemical weapons. Last week Tenet acknowledged the agency had sketchy information as early as 1986. Now that Lake, Clinton's first choice to replace Deutch, has been chased from the theater, Tenet the understudy is onstage. Already, critics...
...Bulls' fourth-quarter strategy is to dump the ball into Jordan. But he's missing. He's missing on the tongue drive from the wing, missing on the turnaround from the baseline, missing on the spot-up threes...
...with him, he becomes upset. But as she starts to push him away from her life, he becomes more insightful, telling Janie that she's "shy and clumsy" and that she makes her life "harder than it has to be." Ironically, Janie uses Marty's advice and insight to dump him, as she realizes that they don't fit together and that she needs to live on her own, without her parents and without a boyfriend, but with her own talents and sense of motivation...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: President Clinton ordered an investigation into a report that the Army blew up an Iraqi ammunitions dump despite a CIA warning that it might contain chemical weapons -- then covered up what it had known when Gulf War veterans began to complain of serious health problems. If confirmed, this would indicate that for the first time that negligence by the CIA and U.S. military was a factor in exposing veterans to poison gas during the Gulf War. The Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses has 60 days to examine the report, made public yesterday. While the Pentagon...