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...Bill Clinton is no George Bush, and it is no accident that the new chief of staff lacks the hardballer's callouses of his predecessors. Rather than letting a lone chief of staff bring a narrow set of final decisions to him, as Bush did, Clinton will spend much of his time debating the pros and cons of issues with his deputies. "I don't see the job as a gatekeeper or as an enforcer. I really do see it as a supporting role," says McLarty. He intends to be an honest broker who will carry out orders, keep...
Late in the afternoon the convoy turns onto a narrow dirt road. Men with assault rifles are poised in the ruined buildings; they too are Marines, transported by air to hold the landing strip at Bale Dogle two days earlier...
...DOOR IS NOT CLOSED YET, BUT THERE IS FINALly a move to narrow the entry. After months of seeking consensus, Chancellor Helmut Kohl's ruling coalition and the opposition Social Democrats have come to terms on a revision of Germany's liberal asylum laws. The parties insist that the fundamental right of asylum for the persecuted has been preserved. But the new provisions will allow the government to turn away individual asylum seekers who enter Germany from a nation that observes the Geneva Convention on refugees. Prospective claimants passing through Poland or Czechoslovakia, for example, on their way to Germany...
...Washington maintain that this is not what they agreed to and not what the relevant Security Council resolution provides. When Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger first made the offer of troops to the U.N. the day before Thanksgiving, says a senior U.S. official, the terms were unambiguous: "a narrow, limited mandate for our forces." Now, says the official, "Boutros-Ghali is moving the goalposts...
...concerned about their facing legalramifications--it will help keep them on thestraight and narrow," he said. "Doctors only havesomething to fear if they stray off the beatentrack and by doing so put patients is jeopardy...