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That, at least, is the plan. But in the decade since Congress issued its death warrant, the stockpile has proved more wily a foe than Hannibal Lecter. As technical snafus have caused the deadline to be pushed back from 1994 to 2004, the estimated cost of incinerating 3.3 million chemical weapons has soared from $1.7 billion to $12 billion. At the same time, the risk of not destroying the stockpile grows exponentially as the weapons decay...
Administrative snafus and tight dollars all around, however, have hurt the quality of care in Tennessee. TennCare critics say the program is often about managing costs, not care. The worse a patient's medical problems, critics claim, the worse the system works. That is, they contend, because the profits for managed-care groups lie in attracting healthy members who require little or no treatment in a given year. "The experience of people with severe disabilities is that they get poor care because, frankly, the provider hopes they will choose another provider," says Carol Westlake, executive director of the Coalition...
Even so, the shootdown might have been stymied. A secret Pentagon investigative report on the O'Grady incident, which will be reviewed in Congress this week, will fault U.S. intelligence snafus -- and may also criticize the Marines for allowing glory-hungry senior officers to go along on the rescue. At least four hours before the downing, U.S. spy organizations had solid intelligence from signal intercepts that surface-to-air missile sites were in the area O'Grady was flying over, but that information never got to his squadron. Three minutes before the shootdown, the National Security Agency knew sam radars...
They met, they talked and they accomplished almost nothing -- a classic case of low expectations barely met. Indeed, the only real drama at last week's Moscow summit involved a series of security and computer snafus. Some loftily titled Americans, including Secretary of State Warren Christopher, were denied entry to important meetings because they lacked the proper credentials, or so some overzealous Russian bodyguards said. Then just before last Wednesday's joint press conference with Boris Yeltsin, Bill Clinton was left without his prepared opening statement. A speechwriter's floppy disk had failed. But that too was small beer since...
...difficult to tick off a long list of the Clinton Adminitration's foreign policy snafus. Yet it is meaningless to criticize the adminstration's strategies if we cannot also acknowledge foreign policy successes...