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...just confusion -- the Russians suffered many casualties from "friendly fire" -- but ineffectiveness in combat. Generals should know that on the battlefield, soldiers swallow their fear and fight to support their buddies. If troops do not know one another, the essential bond does not exist, and they tend to shrink from action. The unseasoned draftees had no warm clothes or food to ward off the bitter cold; most did not know where they were or what their mission...
...brief the new President and letting him know that they were staying in one of Little Rock's cheapest motels. But Clinton has kept his distance from the agency. Woolsey complained that he was cut out of the White House inner circle. "People want the intelligence community to shrink, but at the same time they have more and more things they want it to be on top of," says former CIA director William Webster. In leading the agency into the future, the next director will have to decide, more than anything eelse, what secrets the U.S. can afford...
...poll secretly commissioned by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's ruling Labor Party has found that his government would be trounced were general elections held now, Labor and other government sources have told TIME. According to the poll, Labor's share of the 120-seat Knesset would shrink from 44 seats to only 27. The opposition Likud Party, on the other hand, would leap from 32 seats to 47. "There is a great deal of alarm in the party," one Labor official admits. The clandestine poll, unlike far more optimistic recent public surveys, had an unusually large sample size...
Just days after pledging to shrink the Department of Housing and Urban Development as part of the ongoing tax-cut frenzy, President Clinton today pledged up to $3.5 billion in HUD grants and tax breaks to 106 economically-distressed communities. The biggest winners are three cities and six rural areas designated as "empowerment zones," a scheme designed to lure business to depressed areas first championed by conservative former HUD Secretary Jack Kemp. The urban zones -- Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, New York and Philadelphia-Camden, N.J. -- stand to receive $100 million each in flexible grants and tax breaks for local businesses...
Gingrich missed the key point. "We finally got smart," says an aide to Massachusetts Governor William Weld. "Before we changed, it was like Lucy -- 'The shrink is in for 5 cents.' All people had to do was come in with a note asserting a disability. Now claims are reviewed by a panel of doctors. We modeled our program on the one used by the feds; it works...