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...agency is to publicize individual cases of alleged ATF abuses, in the process ignoring the thousands of investigations that conform even to the N.R.A.'s own anticrime platform. In 1994 ATF recommended 10,000 defendants for prosecution, of whom 47% were previously convicted felons. The bureau's critics also sidestep the fact that on the same day as the Waco raid, an ATF investigator, working with a New York City bomb-squad detective, found the vital shard of evidence that broke the World Trade Center bombing case. Agents from the bureau's office in Charlotte, North Carolina, recently took down...
...such potentially divisive issues as abortion fade into the background as welfare reform and the Republican economic agenda grabbed headlines and votes. There is no mention of abortion in the ``Contract with America,'' and Gingrich made it clear, in his first few weeks as Speaker, that he hoped to sidestep the issue. The White House bungling, however, has given Republicans an irresistible opportunity to appease the antiabortion crowd on the ground that they were deceived. As Christian Coalition head Ralph Reed puts it, ``This nomination is dead. It is not about ideology. It's about competence.'' There has been...
...meeting in Geneva next week between Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev to discuss the future of NATO. McAllister says: "Here's a government (Russia) that's committing fairly substantial human rights abuses, and that's not something that Christopher can easily ignore or sidestep. Without advancing the discussion, why bother to have a meeting...
...deadline passed in 1992, and Dean Jeremy R. Knowles stymied enforcement of the 1990 ultimatum, issuing, postponing and re-postponing a report. Most recently, Harvard settled on its current non-deal with MIT, a weak compromise calculated to sidestep principle in favor of convenience...
...deal-making party leader until health reform is passed, even if that means delaying confirmation hearings until after the first Monday in October. Another problem is whether Mitchell, who voted in 1990 to raise the pay of Supreme Court Associate Justices from $118,600 to $153,600, can sidestep the Constitution's emoluments clause, which prohibits members of Congress from being appointed to a position for which they have recently voted a pay raise. The White House is confident he can get around that one by accepting the court's earlier pay scale...