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...leaking gas pipe. With the disclosure of B.C.C.I.'s "black network" around the world came an explosion of new charges and political recriminations that seem likely to go on for months. The question of the hour: Why had so many countries done so little for so long to rein in the Bank of Credit & Commerce International when, as is now evident, so many were aware of the bank's nefarious operations...
...withdraw his forces from Kuwait did Congress really debate the direction that U.S. policy should take in the region. And by then, it was far too late to effect any meaningful change in policy. Congress had two choices at this last-ditch meeting: continue to give Bush free rein in determining war policy, or suddenly change course and shackle the president and the United National in the 11th hour before the deadline...
...other hand, the U.S. has tried to restrain Israel from undertaking preemptive strikes against its Arab neighbors or from escalating conflicts that have already begun. Massive aid packages have given the U.S. the leverage to apply the carrot as well as the stick to rein in its often bellicose ally...
...opponents of war were not friends of Iraq. "The only debate here in the Congress is over whether we slowly strangle Saddam with sanctions or immediately pursue a military solution," he insisted. "The choice is really over tactics." Robert Michel, the House G.O.P. leader, countered that those seeking to rein in the President's war power were creating a "brass choir of indecision, doubt and confusion...
...desert. Nor, reporters foresee, will their job be made easier. TIME's bureau chief in Washington, Stanley Cloud, was Saigon bureau chief for more than a year. The Pentagon, he says, learned at least one lesson in Vietnam: "Don't ever again let the press have free rein to cover a war pretty much as it sees fit." International editor Karsten Prager, who as a correspondent spent much time in the field during three years in Vietnam, agrees. "Newsmen had direct access," he says, "unlike what is happening now. You walked with a platoon or a company and covered things...