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...inability to figure out the next move in long-running crises -- something at which the late Richard Nixon was a master -- is by now a drearily familiar problem with Clinton's foreign policy, which often seems improvised day to day. "It's just a series of ad hoc responses trying to get past the press questions of the day," says William Odom, former head of the National Security Agency, the Pentagon's electronic-snooping arm. And the reason is simple: the President will not devote the time and attention necessary to map out a steady and consistent foreign policy. Stung...
...selected by an ad hoc search committeeof members drawn from the information technologycommittee. The search, which was advertisednationwide, drew more than 100 applicants...
Hall says he joined the ad-hoc committee of 17 Black students who contributed to the report by the nine-member Rosovsky committee which assessed the AAAAS demands and recommended how the University should respond...
Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles alsoannounced yesterday his appointees to therecently-established Ad Hoc Committee on EthnicStudies...
...Virginia L. Mackay-Smith '78, the Ad Boardsecretary, disputes that claim. She says thedisciplinary body has used members who arecomputer experts to set up an ad-hoc committeewhich reviews cases involving computers...