Word: reporter
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...long onboard conference call with Vice President Gore and a group of foreign policy advisers that included National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, Defense Secretary William Cohen, CIA Director George Tenet and General Henry Shelton, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In the call, discussion focused first on the report that would be delivered later that day by Richard Butler, chairman of UNSCOM, the U.N. special commission that oversees weapons inspections in Iraq. In scathing terms, Butler would say that the "full cooperation" that Saddam had promised on Nov. 15, in the face of an earlier military buildup against...
...group quickly agreed that air strikes were the right option. But Clinton decided he would wait to see Butler's actual report before giving the go order. Before the call ended, there was a second discussion, this time about what Berger carefully described as "any other factors that should lead us to do anything differently." What he meant was the certainty of a political storm in Washington about the timing of the attacks. Despite the President's notorious ability to compartmentalize, holding one set of problems separate in his mind from another, there were no compartments so airtight that they...
...when the Vatican released a 14-page report declaring a genuine (if limited) repentance for the church's role in the Holocaust. Or when Cuba altered its attitude (somewhat) toward Christianity, and Castro invited the Pope for a visit. Or when Northern Ireland made a formal decision not to keep killing itself (for a while). The sound of one mind changing can make one hell of a yarn...
Legal guidelines for what must be in a prospectus are vague in these areas. That said, most are still jammed with pertinent information. And where disclosure is lacking, there's typically a tipoff that you should check further--on the Internet, in the annual report or with a broker or analyst. In Infinity's case, the prospectus briefly alludes to the risk of losing "on-air personalities" with "significant loyal audiences...
Congratulations on your superb report on the giants who laid the foundation for America's spectacular growth. But there was a major oversight: Henry J. Kaiser, road builder; steel, aluminum and magnesium producer; creator of jobs running into the millions; and finally, but not least, founder of Kaiser Permanente, America's largest and most successful health-care program. ALBERT P. HEINER Walnut Creek, Calif...