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...accounts, he whipped a flabby Gore operation into something like fighting trim by cutting costs, establishing a chain of command and getting Gore to loosen his iron grip on campaign minutiae. Coelho made the Gore campaign what it is today - shape-shifting, unsure of how best to proceed, but very much within striking distance of George W. Bush...
President Clinton's decision on whether to proceed with the project was to be based, in part, on the results of three tests of the system, the third of which is expected to be held next month. After the first of these tests failed, the Pentagon lowered the bar by deploying simpler, and fewer, decoys in the second, which succeeded. Although Pentagon officials said they were adopting a walk-before-you-run approach to developing the system, critics point out that future tests outlined in the document actually get easier. "They're setting these tests in ways that increase...
...centerpiece of its challenge to the administration on defense and foreign policy. Candidate George W. Bush has, in fact, come out in favor of a full-blown missile shield designed to neutralize the deterrent value of the Russian missile fleet along with everyone else's. In order to proceed with building the system according to the timetable he set himself, President Clinton would have to make the fateful decision on whether to scrap the ABM treaty at the height of the presidential race. "The Russians, on the other hand, have no reason to rush," says Meier. "They know Clinton only...
...Moscow's consent may compel Moscow and possibly Beijing, too, to deploy more missiles in order to achieve the capacity to overwhelm a U.S. interceptor system, therefore maintaining the deterrent value of their own arsenals. Although President Clinton is committed to making a decision this summer over whether to proceed with building the initial phase of the system, he may be tempted to use the system's patchy performance in prototype testing as an excuse to leave the decision to the next president and neutralize it as an election issue...
...Bush executed an unalloyed about-face, knowing the case could very well come back to haunt him in November. The stay was the only alternative to execution: Under Texas law, the governor cannot change McGinn's sentence without the approval of state parole board, which has voted overwhelmingly to proceed with the execution...