Word: snafus
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...Hyogo prefecture, which includes Kobe, neglected to make the necessary request for aid to the national armed forces, which would provide 16,000 rescuers by week's end. The national government could also have stepped in sooner to aid with coordination. Soldiers who did arrive were plagued by communications snafus: at midnight on Tuesday, one field commander was unable to get radio instructions and had to drive to the Nishinomiya city hall for information. In the context of such disarray, some Kobe residents wondered whether their rescuers were dangerously dispirited...
...from constituents trying to contact them -- charge that the mail holdups could be illegal and plan to investigate the postal system. The House subcommittee on postal operations has summoned Runyon to testify at a hearing about the problems this week. The General Accounting Office plans an investigation of service snafus. "Our Postal Service is a disaster," says Missouri Democrat William Clay, chairman of the House Post Office and Civil Service Committee. "And it is as disheartening nationwide as it is in Washington...
...announcement was another blow for airport boosters smarting from three earlier postponements, snafus and design changes that have put the gargantuan project, bigger than Manhattan, seven months behind schedule and boosted the cost by hundreds of millions. It left them wondering if the $3.2 billion project -- the nation's first big new airport in 20 years -- was jinxed. Cynics who have long questioned the need for such an extravagant facility chuckled that D.I.A. should be renamed D.O.A. -- dead on arrival...
...More snafus may lie ahead. In December astronauts are scheduled to ride the shuttle into orbit to repair the star-crossed Hubble Space Telescope. Should the unprecedentedly complex mission go exactly as planned, NASA could regain some credibility. But if history is any guide, it probably won't. Space is a harsh and unforgiving place, where Murphy's Law is paramount. In fact, many of NASA's best public relations successes have come at the brink of failure. Engineers restored 70% of the Galileo probe's function after its main antenna failed to deploy; astronauts grabbed the Intelsat-6 satellite...
Clinton image meister catalyst for hair and travel snafus...