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...FAILURE TO REGROUP: What remains mystifying is why more than 100 officers, seething with frustration, remained for about the next two hours at their fallback position 1 1/2 miles away, waiting for orders to move back in. The orders were finally issued. For much of this period, Gates was either at the fund raiser or in transit. "The command structure was not in place. They didn't keep in touch," said deputy fire chief Donald Anthony, who had 20 fire engines in place waiting for police escorts. To law-enforcement strategists like Beene, the long delay was fatal. "You think...
...Started in 1939, Marvel is the largest comic- book publisher in North America (total monthly circulation: 8.5 million). Last year the company posted net profits of $5.4 million, up 120% from the previous year, on revenues of $81 million. The offering will hit the market after a fallback from record highs, so Spider-Man may have to demonstrate his gravity-defying superpowers once again...
...Likud Party leader also has a fallback position. If the U.S. pushes him too hard, the far-right members of his ruling coalition will revolt. "My party is poised to topple the government if it comes to that," says Elyakim Ha'etzni, a member of the extremist Tehiya Party and a West Bank settler. If that happens, the peace process would languish while Israel prepared for new elections, which could well produce an even more hard-line government...
That may be what Olmert had in mind in an interview with TIME. He insisted that, far from wanting to give up the Golan, he thought Israel should try to negotiate a Syrian relinquishment of its claim. But he added, "I don't want to say what is the fallback position." On the subject of talks, he noted that while Syria, with Iraq out of the picture, has become Israel's most dangerous enemy, its leaders "might now change their position" as a result of participation in the gulf war. "So let's test them...
...Gorbachev and Shevardnadze in Moscow on May 10, the Administration was still in the dark. Washington had used every public and private avenue to press its message, but it had heard nothing from Moscow since Shevardnadze's rejection of the arguments in Bush's March 27 letter. With no fallback position, Bush and Baker resolved to push the strategy again. "Time is not on our side," Baker was reminded in a memo from his top aides four days before the Moscow meeting. "We must convince the Soviets not that we are in trouble and desperately need them to throw...