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...appointment will be crucial because Clinton "has got to get what he wants done now," before the "working opposition" scenario comes to pass, Ellis said...
Senior Administration sources are speculating that WARREN CHRISTOPHER, who has come under fire as Secretary of State, will be renamed a senior adviser to the President by the end of the year, and Lloyd Bentsen will take over at State. Then, goes this scenario, White House chief of staff Mack McLarty will assume Bentsen's Treasury Secretary post, and deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes will fill McLarty's job. Christopher is said to be so insecure that his staff is keeping a distance between Bentsen...
...real guarantee against capital punishment is his celebrity, not his wealth. Imagine that the scenario we've all had running through our head actually happened: that O.J. Simpson drove his Ford Bronco over to his ex- wife's town house, donned a pair of gloves, confronted her and a man he at least thought was her boyfriend, inflicted "multiple sharp force injuries and stab wounds" (the coroner's report) on both and slit her throat to boot. Two deaths. Premeditated. Gruesome. No obvious complicating or mitigating circumstances...
...spent the past several weeks grilling Pentagon officials and outside experts about the chances of war on the Korean peninsula. "The major and sobering consensus on that score," Thompson says, "is that any conflict there would be fierce and bloody and would leave Seoul in ruins." That frightening scenario is the subject of this week's cover package, and could keep Thompson busy for months to come...
...will prevail? The gloomiest scenario is also the most controversial. The 1991 assessment designed by retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Robert Gaskin predicts the all-important U.S. air campaign would never get off the ground. Instead, he forecasts that when squadrons of American and South Korean F-16s scramble at a dozen air bases, Scud missiles armed with nerve-gas warheads would slam into the tarmac, effectively shutting down operations. At bases like Osan, the huge U.S. air base 25 miles south of Seoul, North Korean commandos would suddenly appear and shoot up the base's preflight briefing room, killing...