Word: oversaw
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...referring to a suggestion made Sunday by House Speaker Newt Gingrich that Attorney General Janet Reno's nomination of Larry Potts as FBI deputy director "will further slow down the terrorist legislation and will mean even greater concern over civil liberties, which I don't think is inappropriate." Potts oversaw the 1993 siege at theBranch Davidian compound in Waco, Tx., and the disastrous 1992 shootout at the home of white separatist Randall Weaver in Idaho, for which he was censured last month. Gingrich said those incidents, which have become rallying cries amonganti-government paramilitaries, aggravate a "genuine fear...
...informal leader of the 10 or so sect members who still live near Waco, and he leads the group in religious services every Saturday; some worshippers reportedly expect Koresh to be resurrected. Until that happens, Doyle is the unofficial supervisor of the Mount Carmel site, and last week also oversaw the planting of a grove of crape myrtle trees there. Nothing, though, has revived the memory of Waco like the horror that supplanted it last week. "We are not calling for people to do this kind of thing," says Doyle. Then he adds, "But it does help in a sense...
Former President Jimmy Carter touched down in Haiti for the first time since his freelance diplomatic efforts in September persuaded the country's ruling junta to leave. Carter, who oversaw Haiti's first democratic vote in 1990, plans to help in preparations for the country's next round of elections in June. He'll be joined in Port-au-Prince Friday by the other members of the U.S. negotiating trio, Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) and former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell. Still, the former president is less than popular in Haiti, where many resent the fact that...
DIED. PAUL DELOUVRIER, 80, French civil servant who was Governor of Algeria in the waning days of French colonial rule, then oversaw the modernization of the Paris region during the economic boom of the 1960s; in Provins. In 1958 Charles de Gaulle picked Delouvrier to head the French administration in Algeria. For three years he sought to quell the Algerian independence movement while trying to placate disruptive French army officers who suspected that Paris was intentionally letting the colony slip away. In 1961, during a helicopter ride over Paris, De Gaulle pointed to the congested urban sprawl below and told...
Woolsey made other improvements as well. He forced CIA analysts to write crisper intelligence reports for the White House. He oversaw plans for cutting almost 25% of the CIA's work force of more than 20,000 by the end of the decade, ahead of the schedule the Administration set for the reductions. "Jim Woolsey was a sincere and decent man who had an impossible task," says Angelo Codevilla, an intelligence expert with the Hoover Institution. "He was a much better director than the CIA was an agency...